Cost Is Staggering Aged In Mental Hospitals Grow
An Associated Press report details how thousands of elderly people are housed in state mental hospitals alongside the chronically ill. Experts cite misplacement, need for daily care, and financial incentives pushing transfers to nursing homes funded by federal old-age benefits.
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American Psychiatric Assn. Journal
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William F. Sheeley
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Ohio
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Michael DiSalle
Ewald W. Busse
Duke University Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
Leo H. Bartemeier
Seton Psychiatric Institution
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Diet and alcohol linked to mental illness says expert
Dr Henry Brill of Pilgrim State Hospital cites pellagra as a historic mental illness cause in the South and now flags chronic alcoholism with vitamin deficiency as a major factor. He notes New York's over-65 population up 400 percent since 1904 while mental hospital patients in that age group have risen 900 percent.
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Henry Brill
New York
Pilgrim State Hospital
South
Brill
New York State
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