Barriers to Discharge for Nursing Home Residents With Serious Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Nursing homes deliver rehabilitative and long-term care for people with serious medical illnesses, functional impairment, and/or cognitive impairment. The population of nursing home residents with serious mental illness (ie, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders) has grown substantially. Other than prisons and jails, nursing homes are the largest institutional care setting for adults (aged ≥18 years) with serious mental illness. Nursing home residents with serious mental illness become long-term residents despite less functional impairment, which may be a function of difficulty discharging these individuals to the community.

Objective

To examine barriers associated with discharging nursing home residents with serious mental illness back to the

SUBMITTER: Hoffman CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12485640 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature