Older Peoples Intervention Programme (OPIP)

For older people (primarily) in need of:

Hub based care:

• More intensive assessment, often associated with risk or unstable care plan where assessment is not appropriate in a normal domiciliary setting,
• relapse preventions input with multidisciplinary response needed for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties where support in domiciliary setting is insufficient/inappropriate.

Therapy based care:

• Specific interventions often psychologically informed and protocol based, one-to-one or group based, step down from inpatient episode where therapeutic interventions programme not yet completed,
• transition facilitated to community setting

The service promotes recovery and relapse prevention in a number of ways including:

• wellness recovery action plan (WRAP).
• Promotes generally opportunities for awareness of and self-management of a range of organic and  functional techniques to reduce impact of illness on the older person and their families and carers.
• Delivers suite of interventions as indicated by national strategy .
• In line with trust objectives regarding developing strategic partnerships, STEPs seeks to establish statutory, non-statutory, community and user led groups to create opportunities for joint working awareness raising, education and signposting.
• Health promotion.
• Gender specific interventions.
• Psycho-education.

Referrals are made for patients already within our services by their community mental health teams.