1. Taking it to the Street: A Psychiatric Outreach Service in Canada
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Sue-Ann MacDonald, James Huff, R. N. Steven Walsh, Alison Middlebro, and Susan J. Farrell
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Adolescent ,education ,Patient Care Planning ,Hospitals, Urban ,Mentally Ill Persons ,Urban Health Services ,Humans ,Medicine ,Psychiatry ,Aged ,Interdisciplinarity ,Aged, 80 and over ,Ontario ,Patient Care Team ,Service (business) ,business.industry ,Mental Disorders ,Public health ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Social environment ,Middle Aged ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,Community Mental Health Services ,Community-Institutional Relations ,Outreach ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Models, Organizational ,Ill-Housed Persons ,Organizational Case Studies ,Marital status ,Female ,business - Abstract
This paper describes a model of flexible psychiatric outreach service in Canada designed to meet the needs of persons who are homeless or marginally housed and have mental illness. The activities of the Psychiatric Outreach Team of the Royal Ottawa Hospital for individual clients and the community agencies who serve them are profiled, followed by a demographic and mental and physical health profile of the clients seen in the past year. The differences from other models of service and the benefits and limitations of this unique multidisciplinary team are discussed, with implications for future service development for this vulnerable population.
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- 2005
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