News From PSIGE

Here are some items of recent News.

Equality in later life

Hot off the Press : A national study of older people’s mental health services. © Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection 2009. Downloadable document available here.

Equality in later life[approx 722KB]

Response to the Department of Health consultation: Transforming the Quality of Dementia Care: Consultation on a national dementia strategy.

This publication is now available as a download from the Publications page and using the link below.

Dementia Strategy - BPS response Sept 2008 [approx 217K]

Special Interest Pages

This website now features pages daling with Special Interests, follow this link for the overview page.

BPS Guidance Report 67 : Best Interests : Guidance on determining the best interests of adults who lack the capacity to make a decision (or decisions) for themselves.

This report is now available as a download from the publications page on this website.
http://www.pmldnetwork.org/resources/bps_best_interests_guide.pdf

Alzheimer's Society

Dementia UK
A report into the prevalence and cost of dementia prepared by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, for the Alzheimer's Society
This is a summary of key findings of the report. [approx 534K]

PSIGE Website Links and Publication Pages

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