Introduction
The new service development guide is committed to:
- improving people’s quality of life
- meeting complex needs in a co-ordinated way
- providing a person-centred approach
- promoting age equality
You can download copies of the guide - together with a series of summary documents and articles of interest along with the financial and service mapping framework by clicking on the links on the right hand side in the box labelled 'In this section'.
Service Mapping Reports 2007
Can be viewed here
Age Equality Guidance Note
In its attempt to ‘level the playing field' with services for adults of working age, Everybody's Business may have inadvertently raised a further question for some of ‘if we are to be age inclusive why bother with an older people's mental health service at all?' Should it not be included in general mainstream care or with mental health services for adults of working age?
To assist commissioners and those responsible for delivering services, the Department of Health and the CSIP have issued this guidance note
Everybody’s Business. Integrated mental health services for older adults: a service development guide. Helping you develop co-ordinated services that focus on older people's mental health problems, not their age.
