Category FAQs Search : Mental Health
Question: Improving mental health in later life: the role of service user involvement
Answer: Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe service user involvement, explain some of the key issues that define, affect or protect mental health in later life and show how involvement may contribute to better mental health in later life.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper reviews existing definitions of involvement and mental health in later life; provides a more detailed review of some examples of involvement at a range of levels and illustrates how these could have a positive impact on mental health.
Findings
Active involvement and engagement at all levels offers significant opportunities for older people to protect and improve their own mental health and the mental health of society as a whole.
Research limitations/implications
This research does not set out to promote any particular intervention or involvement technique. The examples given have been evaluated in a variety of ways.
Practical implications
Service user involvement should be considered as an important potential contributor to mental health in later life.
Social implications
The paper encourages people in later life to be considered as a community resource rather than a problem that needs to be solved.
Originality/value
This paper brings together existing research with a focus on the relationship between involvement and individual and collective mental health.
(Source: , 26 Nov 2020)
Source Link: https://doi-org.onlinedatabase.librarynet.com.my/10.1108/QAOA-09-2015-0043