Collaborative community mental health and aged care services with peer support to prevent late-life depression: study protocol for a non-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Late-life depression is common, modifiable, yet under-treated. Service silos and human resources shortage contribute to insufficient prevention and intervention. We describe an implementation research protocol of collaborative stepped care and peer support model that integrates community mental health and aged care services to address service fragmentation, using productive ageing and recovery principles to involve older people as peer supporters to address human resource issue.

Methods/design

This is a non-randomised controlled trial examining the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the "Jockey Club Holistic Support Project for Elderly Mental Wellness" (JC JoyAge) model versus care as usual (CAU) in community aged care and community mental health service unit

SUBMITTER: Liu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8996671 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature