Steve Iliffe

Jill Manthorpe

This book focuses on all aspects of depression relating to older persons. It also addresses the issues of support and prevention.

Depression in Later Life

A Picture of Health?

The NHS

Vari Drennan

Primary Care for Older People is a contemporary reference work on health problems in later life written exclusively by primary care professionals for primary care professionals that: 1.Integrate nursing and medical perspectives on clinical practice and service organization 2. Understands that well-intentioned changes in practice and service provision can have harmful effects on patients, professionals and the health care service 3. Is still able to offer positive guidance to individual practitioners, practices and Primary Care Groups, anout best practive and innovative multi-disciplinary care for an ageing population. It is aimed at doctors, nurses, health visitors and social workers who are trying to combine care of individuals with an understanding of the needs of whole communities. Its themes are relevant to teachers in different professional disciplines, to members of Primary Care Group and Trust Board, to planners and managers of primary care services, as well as to practitioners. The authors bring to this book their experience in general practice and community nursing, their expertise in service development and management, and their awareness of primary care research.

Primary Care for Older People

Anxiety about medicine becoming impersonal and mechanised permeates the NHS. This is particularly prevalent in general practice, as plans for massive policlinics are revealed and payment systems shift seemingly inexorably towards incentives and targets. The ethos of family medicine, which places so much stress on continuity of care, psychosocial understanding of illness, and the careful management of doubt, is challenged by guidelines, governance, qualityframeworks, and patient satisfaction surveys. General practice is being industrialized into primary care, or so it can seem. This book explores the origins of industrialization, why it is being implemented by government policy, and what it offers both patients and staff. Are thereboth benefits and disadvantages? Finally, how should those working in the community work with the changes to offer the best possible quality of health care?

Steve Iliffe

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