Educating novice practitioners to detect elder financial abuse: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Health and social care professionals are well positioned to identify and intervene in cases of elder financial abuse. An evidence-based educational intervention was developed to advance practitioners' decision-making in this domain. The objective was to test the effectiveness of a decision-training educational intervention on novices' ability to detect elder financial abuse.

Assessing patients' participation and quality of decision-making: insights from a study of routine practice in diverse settings.

In the context of a qualitative study exploring patients' participation in decision-making, we investigated how people interpret and respond to structured questions about decision-making about their health care. Seventy-four participants who attended consultations in five clinical areas completed structured measures of decision-making and discussed their responses during interviews. They identified a range of decisions as having being made in their consultations.

Clinical guidelines of depression: a qualitative study of GPs' views.

Background: Clinical guidelines have become an increasingly familiar component of health care, although their passive dissemination does not ensure implementation. This study is concerned with general practitioners' (GPs) views of guideline implementation in general practice. It focuses specifically on their views about guidelines for the management of patients with depression.

The effects of adult aging and induced positive and negative mood on planning.

Changes in executive functions have been found in older adults and also in young adults experiencing positive or negative mood states. The current study investigated the hypothesis that older adults would show greater executive function impairment following mood induction than young adults. Ninety-six participants (half aged 19-37, half aged 53-80) completed a neutral, positive, or negative mood induction procedure, followed by the Tower of London planning task.

Identifying occupational therapists' referral priorities in community health.

Occupational therapists in British community mental health teams have been debating how the most effective services can be targeted at the most needy clients. This paper presents the results of a quantitative study that examined 40 British occupational therapists' referral prioritization policies. Results showed half of the participants felt their generic responsibilities, which involved having care co-ordination responsibilities, were too large.