The development of a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of older people to end-of-life issues (AEOLI).

Objectives: To develop an end-of-life attitudes questionnaire for use in a large community-based sample of older people.

Design: Nominal groups and standardization of questions.

Participants: Eighteen older people, ten academics and five specialist palliative care health professionals were involved in nominal groups.

A randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention for families of patients with a first episode of psychosis.

Background: Carers' satisfaction with psychiatric services related to information and advice is generally poor. This may be particularly true for services trying to meet the needs of ethnically diverse communities. It is important that services attempt to ameliorate carers' concerns as early as possible.