The intervention: Promoting healthy lifestyles during routine older people's mental healthcare.

Objective: Lifestyle is an important determinant of health. The intervention allows mental health clinicians to address lifestyle during routine mental health encounters.

Method: Clinicians were taught how to encourage consumers to learn more about lifestyle and health; consider their own lifestyle and health using a self-rated health and wellness questionnaire (HAWQ) and helped them decide which out of six health domains (physical, mental and social activity, healthy eating, mental wellbeing and positive thinking) should be improved in small, sustainable steps using a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timed) goal-setting template.

Domiciliary clinics II: a cost minimisation analysis.

Objectives: We compare the cost of assessing new referrals to an old age psychiatry service at the patient's home or a hospital-based clinic.

Method: An old age psychiatry service in Liverpool where routine referrals were assessed at home (domiciliary clinic) was compared to an adjacent service which assessed people in an outpatient clinic. Activity levels for four years of the service were collected and analysed.