Evaluating Mental Health Services for Older People

Part 1: Mental health services for older people in the United Kingdom; Development of services; An integrated approach to services; Part 2: Old age psychiatry as a discipline worldwide; Development of the discipline; Part 3: Europe; Difficulties in transnational comparisons; Transnational comparison studies; Mental health services for older people in individual European countries; Part 4: The United States of America; The legislative background; Funding: Medicare and Medicaid; State policy and programme development; Development of services; Part 5: Canada; National guidelines for mental health services for older people; Development of services; Part 6: Australia; The policy background; Development of services; Co-ordination of services; Part 7: Approaches to evaluating health and social care; Other external quality improvement mechanisms in western European countries; Government-led systems for evaluating health and social services in England and Wales; Towards evaluation of mental health services for older people; Comparative analysis of approaches to evaluation; Part 8: Developing standards to evaluate mental health services for older people; The method used; Pilot evaluations and reviews of services; Part 9: Validity; Achieving validity in standards; Part 10: Testing the reliability of standards in use; Reliability; Testing the reliability of the health advisory service standards; Part 11: What has been learnt and future directions; Assessment of the health advisory service approach; Lessons for the future; Incentives for improving services; Future research: does evaluation improve care?