Royal College of Psychiatrists call for end to ageless’ mental health services

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has called for a halt in the development of ‘ageless’ mental health services because they could threaten the quality of care provided to older people. Writing in medical journal The Lancet, the RCPsych Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry warns that the creation of generic all-age services by health providers is “leading to erosion and fragmentation of services” that could adversely affect specialist provision to older people. Worrying misunderstanding of the Equality Act Dr James Warner, chair of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, described the development of ageless psychiatry services as “a worrying trend