1 Activities associated with promoting services and programmes to persons who may be eligible for them but be unaware of them. 2 Services provided outside the venue of the providing organization, usually in people’s homes.
(AOT) a multidisciplinary psychiatric team specialized in the treatment of patients with severe mental illness who are difficult to engage. Most AOTs will only see patients who have had a number of recent hospital admissions (‘revolving door’ patients). Recently, in many areas of the UK AOTs have been subsumed into *community mental health teams.... assertive outreach team
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