Disparities in Utilization of Psychiatry Services Among Home Care Clients: The Tale of Two Canadian Jurisdictions.
home care
mental health
older adults
physician visits
psychiatry services
Journal
Frontiers in psychiatry
ISSN: 1664-0640
Titre abrégé: Front Psychiatry
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101545006
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
19
05
2021
accepted:
09
08
2021
entrez:
4
10
2021
pubmed:
5
10
2021
medline:
5
10
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Publicly funded home care in Canada supports older adults in the community to delay institutional care, which results in complex care populations with multimorbidity that includes mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and other mental health symptoms among older clients in two publicly funded Home Care (HC) Programs and their psychiatry service utilization (psychiatrist visits) after being admitted to home care. This retrospective cohort study examines clients age 60 years and older in the two Canadian provinces of Manitoba (MB), specifically the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) (
Identifiants
pubmed: 34603103
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.712112
pmc: PMC8484907
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
712112Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Poss, Mitchell, Mah and Keefe.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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