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Care management for older people with serious mental health problems

  • Document type:
    Guidance
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    25 July 2002
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Gateway reference:
    2002
  • Pages:
    3
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown Copyright

The Care Programme Approach (CPA) should be applied to older people with severe mental illness due to schizophrenia or other psychoses. The assessment of their needs should be based on the Single Assessment Process (SAP) for older people. SAP, plus critical aspects of CPA, should be applied to other older people with severe functional or organic mental health problems, who were they younger would be provided for under CPA. When individuals subject to CPA reach old age, switches to SAP are not inevitable, and should only be made in the best interests of individuals and the continuity of their care.

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