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Nursing Homes Called ‘Dumping Grounds’ for Mentally Ill By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: March 23, 2009 Click here to rate this report BALTIMORE, March 23 — Young and middle-aged people with serious mental illnesses are increasingly being housed in nursing homes alongside elderly residents, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data show. Nationally, the number of mentally ill individuals placed in nursing homes increased 41% from 2002 to 2008, according to data obtained by the Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request. Some states, including Nevada, Utah, and Missouri, had increases of 75% or more. About 125,000 mentally ill people are now living in long-term care facilities, 9% of the total nursing home population, according to the CMS data. The closure of state-operated mental institutions in most states and rising vacancy rates in nursing homes have combined to make these facilities attractive as housing for the mentally ill. As long as
Mentally ill endanger nursing home patients They’re sharing space with elderly — sometimes with tragic consequences The Associated Press updated 5:31 p.m. ET, Sun., March. 22, 2009 CHICAGO – Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer’s, but that wasn’t what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed. Jackson’s roommate — a mentally ill man nearly 30 years younger — was arrested and charged with the killing. Police found him sitting next to the nurse’s station, blood on his hands, clothes and shoes. Inside their room, the ceiling was spattered with blood. “Why didn’t they do what they needed to do to protect my dad?” wondered Jackson’s stepson, Russell Smith. Over the past several years, nursing homes have become dumping grounds for young and middle-age people with mental illness, according to Associated Press interviews and an analysis of data from all 50 states. And that has proved a prescription for violence, as Jackson’s case and others acros
BALTIMORE, March 23 — Young and middle-aged people with serious mental illnesses are increasingly being housed in nursing homes alongside elderly residents, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data show. Nationally, the number of mentally ill individuals placed in nursing homes increased 41% from 2002 to 2008, according to data obtained by the Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request. Some states, including Nevada, Utah, and Missouri, had increases of 75% or more. About 125,000 mentally ill people are now living in long-term care facilities, 9% of the total nursing home population, according to the CMS data. The closure of state-operated mental institutions in most states and rising vacancy rates in nursing homes have combined to make these facilities attractive as housing for the mentally ill. As long as the mentally ill population in a given facility remains under 50%, Medicaid will pay to house individuals with chronic psychiatric disorders there regardles
