GMHOT works to enhance the mental health and well-being of older adults living at home in the community, in long-term care or retirement homes, who exhibit significant mental health issues and/or behavioural expressions. A focus will be on individuals living with significant mental health diagnoses, where their experiences in the past year have caused a functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits their daily functioning. The goals of GMHOT are to improve the health and well-being of older adults experiencing symptoms of mental health, in order to reduce the need for psychiatric admissions and visits to hospital emergency departments, and to enhance the knowledge and skills of care partners and staff in various community settings.
The program is time limited and consists of comprehensive psychogeriatric assessment, psychoeducation, counselling and psychiatric treatment.
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Referrals must be submitted by a physician or a nurse practitioner. The referral form can be found on the HDGH website.
Patients with an existing community psychiatrist will be eligible for a second opinion should their community psychiatrist facilitate the referral.