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
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

712112

Informations 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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Auteurs

Jeffrey Poss (J)

School of Public Health and Health Systems, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Lori Mitchell (L)

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Jasmine Mah (J)

Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Janice Keefe (J)

Department of Family Studies and Gerontology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Nova Scotia Centre on Aging, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

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