More Seniors With Mental Illness Than Dementia In US Nursing Homes

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I don’t know whether to be discouraged by the following news (passed along by an eagle-eyed reader) or to consider it a trend that’s to the good yet filled with all kinds of tricky implications, but a study out this week in Psychiatric Services asserts that there are more people in nursing homes due to mental illness–depression in particular–than there are for dementia. What’s more, the number of people in nursing homes with mental illnesses grew quite a bit. “The number of individuals

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