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Program: Seniors' Mental Health - Regional Consultation Program

Organizations: North Bay Regional Health Centre
- Mental Health Programs and Services
Description of Services: Seniors' Mental Health - Regional Consultation Service (SMH-RCS) functions as a regional tertiary psychiatric out-patient service. SMH-RCS collaborates with North East Behavioural Supports Ontario and key stakeholders to provide specialized community outreach consultation services for older adults residing in private homes, retirement homes, or long-term care homes within the North Bay District.

SMH-RCS provides mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment recommendations and follow-up for older adults with late-onset mental health concerns as well as supportive education and counseling for family care partners. The program assists older adults with age-related psychiatric disorders and their caregivers.

SMH-RCS also facilitates outreach leadership throughout the Northeast by providing clinical support and education to satellite community seniors' mental health programs.

Eligibility - Population(s) Served: Older Adults Only
Application: Consultation requests for in-depth assessments by our specialized team are initiated by family doctors/nurse practitioners. Individuals exhibiting any of a broad range of emotional, cognitive, or behavioural symptoms, (usually representing a significant change from their previous functioning) may be referred. The target population includes seniors with one or more of the following criteria: mental health and substance use complicated by medical illness and/or functional needs; severe mental illness and requiring complex care; responsive behaviours/personal expressions associated with dementia and/or other mental illness; severe late-onset mental illness; mental health problems and illness and substance use; in occasional circumstances, persons under the age of 65 who have an age-related mental illness.
Accessibility: Wheelchair Accessible      Wheelchair Accessible
Languages: English ; French ; Interpretation Services
Area(s) Served: Ontario

Phone Numbers: 705-494-3054
Website: nbrhc.on.ca
Address: A-120 King St W
North Bay, ON
P1B 5Z7
Hours: Mon 8:30am-4:30pm * Tue 8:30am-4:30pm * Wed 8:30am-4:30pm * Thu 8:30am-4:30pm * Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Contacts: Intake Worker

 
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