Speech therapy for psychogeriatric services

Psychogeriatric consultation services: effect and effectiveness.

OBJECTIVES To determine the nature of referrals to a psychogeriatric consultation/outreach service, the types of interventions provided, and the effects and effectiveness of the service. METHOD The study used a prospective approach in which 67 consecutive patients referred for psychogeriatric assessment were followed up 6 to 8 weeks after the initial assessment and then again 6 months after i...

Morale and the planning of psychogeriatric services.

Psychogeriatric SOS (services-on-screen) - a unique e-health model of psychogeriatric rural and remote outreach.

Mental health service delivery to rural and remote communities can be significantly impeded by the tyranny of distance. In Australia, rural and remote mental health services are characterized by limited resources stretched across geographically large and socio-economically disadvantaged regions (Inder et al., 2012; Thomas et al., 2012). Internationally, rural and remote area mental health workf...

Remote Speech and Language Therapy services in Buckinghamshire

Executive summary: Speech and Language Therapists work with people with aphasia following Stroke. For many clients aphasia is a life-long condition and an individual’s ability to adjust to this is very variable. Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust has an integrated adult Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Service with 3.6 WTE therapists allocated to the Community Long-Term Conditions Team which ser...

Delayed Referral in Children with Speech and Language Disorders for Rehabilitation Services

Objectives: Speech and language development is one of the main aspects of evolution in humans and is one of the most complex brain functions such that it is referred to as one of the highest cortical functions such as thinking, reading and writing. Speech and language disorders are considered as a major public health problem because they cause many secondary complications in the childhood and a...