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Social Determinants of Health for People With Serious Mental Illness After Transitioning to the Community

Approximately 10 million, or 6 percent, of the U.S. population experience serious mental illness (SMI) (NAMI, 2019). Social determinants of health (SDOH) associated with this population can provide important information for targeted innovations with the potential to reduce disease burden and improve...

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Autores principales: Kellett, Kathy, Ligus, Kaleigh, Baker, Kristin, Robison, Julie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740808/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.105
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description Approximately 10 million, or 6 percent, of the U.S. population experience serious mental illness (SMI) (NAMI, 2019). Social determinants of health (SDOH) associated with this population can provide important information for targeted innovations with the potential to reduce disease burden and improve quality of life. Using secondary data from Connecticut’s Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration, this research compares people age 50+ who transitioned out of an institution onto the Medicaid HCBS Mental Health Waiver (MHW) (n= 271) to those receiving Mental Health services through the Medicaid State Plan (MHSP) (n=278). Analyses examine SDOH in both groups and are organized around five broad domains: Finances; education; social/community context, health/health care, and neighborhood/built environment. MHSP participants were significantly more likely to report not having enough money at the end of the month at 6 (42% vs. 21%), 12 (37% vs. 20%), and 24 (37% vs. 17%) months. Significantly more MHSP than MHW participants did not like where they lived at 6 (12% vs. 1%) and 24 (24% vs. 5%) months. Significantly more MHSP than MHW participants were unhappy with the help they received in the community at 6 (22% vs. 8%), 12 (23% vs. 7%), and 24 (19% vs. 5%) months. Groups did not differ by education, social/community context, health/health care, feelings of safety where they live, or on post-transition hospitalizations, ED use or reinstitutionalization. To improve quality of life in the community, MHSP participants could benefit from greater assistance with finances, housing, and community services.
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spelling pubmed-77408082020-12-21 Social Determinants of Health for People With Serious Mental Illness After Transitioning to the Community Kellett, Kathy Ligus, Kaleigh Baker, Kristin Robison, Julie Innov Aging Abstracts Approximately 10 million, or 6 percent, of the U.S. population experience serious mental illness (SMI) (NAMI, 2019). Social determinants of health (SDOH) associated with this population can provide important information for targeted innovations with the potential to reduce disease burden and improve quality of life. Using secondary data from Connecticut’s Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration, this research compares people age 50+ who transitioned out of an institution onto the Medicaid HCBS Mental Health Waiver (MHW) (n= 271) to those receiving Mental Health services through the Medicaid State Plan (MHSP) (n=278). Analyses examine SDOH in both groups and are organized around five broad domains: Finances; education; social/community context, health/health care, and neighborhood/built environment. MHSP participants were significantly more likely to report not having enough money at the end of the month at 6 (42% vs. 21%), 12 (37% vs. 20%), and 24 (37% vs. 17%) months. Significantly more MHSP than MHW participants did not like where they lived at 6 (12% vs. 1%) and 24 (24% vs. 5%) months. Significantly more MHSP than MHW participants were unhappy with the help they received in the community at 6 (22% vs. 8%), 12 (23% vs. 7%), and 24 (19% vs. 5%) months. Groups did not differ by education, social/community context, health/health care, feelings of safety where they live, or on post-transition hospitalizations, ED use or reinstitutionalization. To improve quality of life in the community, MHSP participants could benefit from greater assistance with finances, housing, and community services. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7740808/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.105 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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