title: Community-based mental health services for the elderly: nursing meets the need.
abstract: Special needs exist for older persons who have acute and chronic mental illness and disability; however, individual and societal barriers can prevent these services from reaching those in often desperate need. Intervention and expertise delivered to the urban elderly primarily in the home by psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialists is a viable option in primary prevention and crisis intervention.
authors: McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Craman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005260:Female; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D012380:Role; D014505:Urban Population