The Psychiatrist (2009) 33: 184-186. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.108.020081
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Psychological therapies, older people and human rights{dagger}

Claire Hilton, Consultant Psychiatrist

Mental Health Services for Older Adults, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, Bentley House, 15–21 Headstone Drive, Harrow HA3 5QX, email: claire.hilton{at}nhs.net

Declaration of interest

Under the criterion of ‘or any close relationship with an organisation whose interests, financial or otherwise, may be affected by the publication of your paper’, I work in a trust where I perceive older adults services to be less well-funded relative to services for younger adults.

{dagger} See special article, pp.186–188, this issue.

Additional funding has recently been made available by the government for the treatment of anxiety and depression. However, this is targeted towards people of working age, to reduce expenditure on incapacity benefit. That older people with the same mental illnesses do not receive equitable access to psychological therapies contradicts other recent government recommendations. Economic data appears to hugely influence provision of services for this group of users, but is this appropriate and humane? The Human Rights Act 1998 (Chapter 42) has been largely ignored in the provision of mental health services for older people, and the centrality of this legislation needs further consideration.


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