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the mothers of their patients) and term care. The seniors mental health the Canadian Coalition for Seniors
other psychiatrists. team meets regularly with the NSHA Mental Health national best practice
Seniors Mental Health Network, the guidelines in the province, and
The RMHS team is currently goal of which is to help build capacity conducted knowledge translation
partnered with the FORBOW study for seniors’ mental healthcare in the (KT) research on this and other
(read more about this on page 34) to province. They also participate in educational efforts. They are a leader
recruit patients, as well as two other the Atlantic Seniors Mental Health in the country in terms of innovations
studies awaiting approval. They hope Network, which has a similar goal for in seniors mental health promotion,
to increase awareness about their the region. cognitive behavioural therapy in
service and the importance of treating late life, and positive psychiatry—all
mothers living with mental illness. To Over the last several years they have emerging areas of clinical practice. To
read more see page 72. offered input on multiple strategies read more about geriatric psychiatry
including the Mental Health and please see page 70.
Seniors Mental Health Addictions Strategy, the Dementia
The Geriatric Psychiatry/ Seniors Strategy, the Positive Aging strategy
Mental Health Program is a tertiary, and more recent NSHA’s mental
subspecialty team serving people health strategic planning. They have
over 65 with new onset mental presented recommendations about
illnesses and neurocognitive seniors mental healthcare services,
disorders complicated by mental human resource and capacity
illness. This is a multidisciplinary team building to various committees on
with services across the continuity request over the past 15 years.
from inpatients, to outpatients, to
outreach in the community and long The program has helped to roll out

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