title: The challenge of evaluating mental health services for older people.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite a consensus on the need to expand and improve mental health care for older people, evidence on models of service development is limited.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Referring to two case studies, this paper considers how evaluation of service innovations can inform policy and practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Evaluation should entail a dual concern with measurement and meaning in judging the value of an intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK. n/.mccrae@iop.kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Niall
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: McCrae
authors.forename: Sube
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Banerjee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care