This project, undertaken on behalf of the College's Faculty of
Old Age Psychiatry, set out to find out about, and describe, a
range of existing models in working age and old age services of
crisis resolution/home treatment and intermediate care
services.
To achieve this, the policy unit carried out a literature
review to find out what has been published about different models -
for example, dedicated older people's crisis resolution/home
treatment services, or crisis resolution/home treatment services
for working age adults which have dropped their upper age limit.
The unit contacted authors of relevant papers and also followed up
a number of contacts resulting from a call to the Old Age and
General & Community faculties to identify services which might
be of interest to this project.
This work resulted in a number of services being
identified. Managers and/or lead clinicians from these
services were then asked to complete a detailed questionnaire about
their service (including any data from evaluation studies).
This information - essentially a series of descriptions of the
different services identified - is now available and provides an
easy way of comparing and contrasting approaches. To download
an Excel spreadsheet, which will allow you to scroll between
different services, click here. If you
would prefer to have the information in hard copy, please email
Richard Meier (rmeier@rcpsych.ac.uk) who will be
able to send it to you as an A3 print-out (3 pages).