Project objectives
The Mental Health Aged Care Partnership Initiative (MHACPI) provides community residential services for people with severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and/or functional mental illness. The purpose of the project was to assess the effectiveness of the model and inform further service development. Previous evaluation concluded that the MHACPI model can successfully deliver quality care for older people with severe symptoms within a mainstream residential aged care setting, improving their quality of life, and their access to long-term, community-based care. However, the previous evaluation did not explore whether the initiative is a cost-effective model for delivering services to the target group.