Authors: Patrick Livermore
Year: 2019
Event: 2019 TheMHS Conference
Subject: FEATURED SYMPOSIUM: Innovations in Community Services
Type of resource: Conference Presentations and Papers
Abstract: Patrick Livermore is Coordinator, Promotion / Prevention, Central Coast Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP). Patrick’s work and research interests include peer work, group programs, elder abuse and suicide in later life. For Patrick ageing is everyone’s future, a journey as awe inspiring, terrifying, magnificent, melancholy and mysterious as the unfolding of the universe itself. He has been privileged to work with and share this journey with so many who have come before him. Their experience is a gift if we are just patient enough to unwrap it.
‘Partners in Peer Work; an innovative approach to supporting older people with mental health concerns in the community’ Presented by Patrick Livermore
Patrick Livermore is Coordinator, Promotion / Prevention, Central Coast Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP). Patrick’s work and research interests include peer work, group programs, elder abuse and suicide in later life. For Patrick ageing is everyone’s future, a journey as awe inspiring, terrfying, magnificent, melancholy and mysterious as the unfolding of the universe itself. He has been priveliged to work with and share this journey with so many who have come before him. Their experience is a gift if we are just patient enough to unwrap it.
The Older Persons Peer Support Program is a partnership established in March 2016 between Central Coast Primary Care (CCPC) and Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP). CCPC employ Peer Workers with lived experience of ageing and mental health concerns who provide an exclusive service to consumers of SMHSOP including instilling hope and support throughout treatment, identifying strengths, coping strategies and sense of identity, regaining independence, achieving goals, being active, social and involved in the community, supporting love and friendships, and accessing resources, programs and services.
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