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Mental Health Status of Home Care Elderly in Michigan
dc.contributor.authorLi, Lydia W.
dc.contributor.authorConwell, Yeates
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-25T20:46:50Z
dc.date.available2010-03-25T20:46:50Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationpublished version appeared as: Li, Lydia and Conwell, Yeates (2007). "Mental Health Status of Home Care Elderly in Michigan." The Gerontologist, 47(4), 528-534. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65121>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65121
dc.description.abstractThis study describes the mental health status of community-living frail elders in Michigan and identifies subgroups who are vulnerable to mental health problems. We analyzed the baseline assessment data collected from older adults admitted to two community-based long-term care programs in Michigan (N = 18,939). Results show that 40.5% of the sample have recognized mental disorders, 39.6% use psychotropic medications, 24.5% have probable depression, and 1.4% have self-injury thoughts or attempts. Frail elders who are white, younger, and female--as well as those who experience more pain, disease burden, cognitive impairment and IADL limitations--are more prone to psychological distress. Mental health care is greatly needed by community-living frail elders.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDr. Li received support for this study from the University of Michigan Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (AG024824). Dr. Conwell was supported in part by NIMH grants R25 MH68564-01 (Eric Caine, PI) and R24 MH07164 (Yeates Conwell, PI). The authors thank the Michigan Department of Community Health for making the data available, as well as Mary James, MA, Brant Fries, PhD, and Kristina Szafara, PhD, for their assistance in accessing and extracting the data.en_US
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dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectDepressionen_US
dc.subjectPsychological Distressen_US
dc.subjectCommunity-based Long-term Careen_US
dc.subjectFrail Eldersen_US
dc.titleMental Health Status of Home Care Elderly in Michiganen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Work
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumSocial Work, School ofen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Rochester Medical Centeren_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65121/1/MentalhealthstatusTG-revfinal16-3-07.pdf
dc.identifier.sourceThe Gerontologisten_US
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