title: State regulations for nursing home residents with serious mental illness.
abstract: To identify state regulations for nursing home residents with Serious Mental Illness (SMI). We reviewed state regulations for policies relating to nursing home residents with SMI, and conducted interviews with expert stakeholders. A framework for analyzing state regulations was generated by identifying four discrete categories: States with specific mental illness regulations, Alzheimer's or dementia regulations, minor mention of mental illness, and no mention of mental illness. A large majority of the states have little or no mention of mental illness in their nursing home regulations, suggesting limited attention to all forms of mental illness by most state regulatory bodies.
authors: Department of Sociology, The State University of New York at Buffalo, 430 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. dastreet@buffalo.edu
authors: Debra
authors: D
authors: Street
authors: Victor
authors: V
authors: Molinari
authors: Donna
authors: D
authors: Cohen
mesh_terms: D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013219:State Government