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Placement challenges: Implications for Long-term care of dementia sufferers

Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Raymond B. Flannery, Jr., PhD

Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Michael Spillane, BA

Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Caregivers and long-term care staff seek appropriate placements for dementia sufferers, but there is little empirical research to guide such decision-making. However, recent national trends in mental health care have emphasized the placement of persons with serious mental illness in privatized, community-based residences. This body of empirical research has indicated that persons with psychosis, substance use disorder, assaultive behavior, and medication noncompliance have shorter tenure in these residential settings. These findings are also important for other, more traditional health care settings, as the patients discharged from community residences may require assistance on occasion from such other settings. This study continues the inquiry into the characteristics of patients with serious mental illness, who have shorter tenure in community residences. Dangerous behaviors, treatmentresistant psychosis, medical illnesses, and social-interpersonal skill deficiencies were common causes for discharge in this study. Since there remains a paucity of published empirical studies on the issue for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, we present the implications of, and guidelines for, addressing these issues in dementia sufferers in long-term care settings.

Key Words: assaultive behavior • community residence • dementia patients • long-term care • short tenure • substance use disorder • treatment-resistant psychosis

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®, Vol. 16, No. 5, 285-288 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/153331750101600504


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