Older People and Mental Health Nursing

Rebecca Neno is Primary Care Development Lead & Senior Lecturer in Primary Care at Thames Valley University, London. She is also a Committee Member of the RCN Mental Health and Older People's Forum. Barry Aveyard is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield. He is also a Committee Member of the RCN Mental Health and Older People's Forum. Hazel Heath is an Independent Consultant on Nursing and Older People and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at City University, London.

PART 1: CONTEXT. Chapter 1: Background and influences. Part 2: HELPING OLDER INDIVIDUALS. Chapter 2: Older individuals and mental health. Chapter 3: Normal physiological ageing. Chapter 4: Values underpinning help, support and care. Chapter 5: Approaches to help, support and care. Chapter 6: Legal and ethical frameworks for mental health nursing. Chapter 7: Dilemmas in mental health nursing. Chapter 8: Assessing older people with mental health issues. PART 3: NEGLECTED ASPECTS. Chapter 9: Culture, religion and spirituality. Chapter 10: Intimacy, sex and sexuality. Chapter 11: Nutrition. Chapter 12: Palliative and end-of-life care. PART 4: MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FOR OLDER PEOPLE. Chapter 13: Acute mental health issues. Chapter 14: Delirium. Chapter 15: Enduring mental health issues. Chapter 16: Depression in later life. Chapter 17: Dementia in later life. PART 5: FUTURE DIRECTIONS. Chapter 18: Mental health and well-being for older people in the future: the nursing contribution