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Welcome to the first June Kathchild then explains how an innovative issue of Working with educational project for older learners is helping the Older People in 2009. learners to regain their confidence. Inside this issue Listening to those that we want to help or work with you will find superb also means having to understand in order for the right examples of good course of action to be taken. Neil Mapes reports on practice from new the value of using older volunteers as mental capacity projects that are already advocates: their lifetime of experiences brings a new setting standards, to dimension to this skilled work and provides excellent initiatives that have contributions when seeking solutions to the issues matured and are facing service users. We then turn our attention to changing how services are delivered; by influencing the growing collaboration between mental health and how professionals think and work and bettering older hospital teams. Sally Ashton and Christine Carter tell people’s self image. The backdrop to these articles is the story of how their mental health liaison team has mental health (except My Work); however, they all fostered good working relationships with the trust’s have a common approach based on listening to and other teams. Understanding is also the message within understanding those they seek to help or work with. an article from Rachel Tribe, Pauline Lane and Sue In our first article, Fiona Borrowman and Sarah Heasum who examine the issues behind promoting Dempster explain about their organisation’s remit to positive mental health and well-being to black and help people across Scotland age well mentally. Older minority ethnic elders, and call on the voluntary sector people themselves know best how to improve their to do more to understand and develop culturally mental health and well-being, they say; a sentiment appropriate mental health services. echoed by Alan Wright and Mima Cattan who report on Finally, we hear from Janet Morrison of Independent their study into exercise and depression and the barriers Age, who talks about her work in transforming her that deter older people from keeping active. charity’s services and what motivates her – namely, Good mental health relies on a number of factors, listening to the very people she wants to help. self-esteem being just one. In the next article, Toby Williamson describes a project that is tackling the question of why old men are perceived as ‘grouchy’. Editorial Board Irene Kohler Director, Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Caroline Bernard Residents Policy and Communications Manager, Counsel and Care Gary Martin Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Elder Abuse Nick Bishop Consultant Claudine McCreadie Consultant and former Research Fellow, Institute of Jenny Desoutter Gerontology, King’s College London Freelance Consultant Rebecca Neno Dyllis Faife Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Non Medical Prescribing, Freelance Consultant University of Lincoln Alex Fox Carolyn Robertson Director of Policy and Communications, Research and Development Manager, Active Age Unit, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers Age Concern England Kalyani Gandhi Fiona Thomas Independent Consultant: Age and Ethnicity Editor, Working with Older People Karen Gerty Carol Wardle MIND in Brighton and Hove Commercial Manager, Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies Eleanor Gibson Director, Advocacy for Older People in Greenwich Toby Williamson Deborah Klée Associate Head of Service Improvement and Workforce Independent Consultant Development, Mental Health Foundation Working with Older People March 2009 Volume 13 Issue 1 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd
Working with Older People – Emerald Publishing
Published: Apr 13, 2009
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