Are Nursing Homes Appropriate for Older Adults with Severe Mental Illness? Conflicting Consumer and Clinician Views and Implications for the Olmstead Decision

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1571-1579

  Bartels, Stephen J ^a,b   Miles, Keith M ^a,b   Dums, Aricca R ^a,b   Levine, Kristin J ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Level of care; Living preference; Nursing home; Older adult; Olmstead

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULATIVE ILLNESS RATING SCALE FOR GERIATRICS; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NURSING HOME; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICIAN; RATING SCALE; SPECIFIC LEVEL OF FUNCTION SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0242408468     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51508.x     Document Type: Article

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