title: Community services. The home team.
abstract: Reorganising a mental health service for elderly people to ensure most care can be given in the client's home has led to a dramatic decrease in admissions. Length of inpatient stay has not fallen, probably because those now admitted are more severely ill. The service is based on community mental health teams and places great reliance on healthcare assistants.
authors.affiliation: Premier Health Trust, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stokes
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hope
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom