The interRAI Suite of Mental Health Assessment Instruments: An Integrated System for the Continuum of Care.

ABSTRACT: The lives of persons living with mental illness are affected by psychological, biological, social, economic, and environmental factors over the life course. It is therefore unlikely that simple preventive strategies, clinical treatments, therapeutic interventions, or policy options will succeed as singular solutions for the challenges of mental illness. Persons living with mental illness receive services and supports in multiple settings across the health care continuum that are often fragmented, uncoordinated, and inadequately responsive. Appropriate assessment is an important tool that health systems must deploy to respond to the strengths, preferences, and needs of persons with mental illness. However, standard approaches are often focused on measurement of psychiatric symptoms without

SUBMITTER: Hirdes JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6978285 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature