Under-utilisation of community mental health services by elders: examining policy barriers.
Older patients are receptive to mental health care. Why then do they often receive fewer community mental health services than other patients? This article identifies prejudices in the medical fraternity and failures in US public health policies as underlying causes in the relative lack mental health services for older patients.
Feinson
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Rutgers University Institute for Health Care Policy.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014481:United States