The institutionalization of individuals with mental illness in nursing homes is an important policy concern. Using nursing home Minimum Data Set assessments from 2005, we found large cross-state variation in both the rates of mental illness among nursing home admissions and the estimated rates of nursing home admissions among persons with mental illness. We also found that newly admitted individuals with mental illness were younger and more likely to become long-stay residents. Taken together, these results suggest that state-level mental health and nursing home factors may influence the likelihood of long-term nursing home use for persons with mental illness. PMC ID: PMC2777514 (June 2009)
David C. Grabowski
Health Affairs
2009
D.C. Grabowski, K.A. Aschbrenner, Z. Feng, et al.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777514/