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Mental illness: out of this world
- Author:
- SIDDALL Rhonda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.4.94 Supplement, 1994, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A big gap between community care legislation and housing legislation means that homeless mentally ill people are losing out. The majority of mentally ill people who are homeless are those who are treated for short periods of time in a hospital and who are discharged to no fixed abode without support. Reports on this damaging situation.
Sticking a plaster on the housing disaster
- Author:
- DOBSON Julian
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 22.8.91, 1991, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes achievements and problems of the Department of Health homelessness initiative in London Boroughs: community psychiatric teams contact homeless people with mental illness, place them in hostels and later in permanent homes.
Moving into homelessness after psychiatric hospitalization
- Author:
- BELCHER John R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 14(3/4), 1991, pp.63-77.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A six-month follow-up study of 132 former patients of a state hospital examined those subjects who became homeless and compared them with those subjects who did not. A quantitative and qualitative approach was used to document the process of homelessness that occurs after psychiatric hospitalisation. A set of policy options is presented that can respond to the special needs of homeless mentally ill people.
Out of sight, out of mind
- Author:
- GULLAND Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 1.9.99, 1999, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a new survey from Crisis which reveals that one in three people evicted from their homes has a mental health problem.
Homelessness and the use of acute psychiatric beds: findings from a one-day survey of adult acute and low-level secure psychiatric patients in North and South Thames regions
- Authors:
- KOFFMAN Jonathan, FULOP Naomi
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(2), March 1999, pp.140-147.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes the impact of homelessness on the use of adult acute and low-level secure psychiatric beds in North and South Thames regions. The article specifically focuses on those homeless patients who no longer required the acute psychiatric facilities in order to determine the complement of accommodation and alternative services necessary to enable them to be discharged. Concludes that homeless psychiatric in-patients have contributed to the increasingly precarious state of mental health services provision and represent a failure to provide a sufficient level of community alternatives for those who can no longer access the long-stay hospital services, and for whom the pool of acute psychiatric beds is ever reducing.
Meeting mental health needs of ethnic minority groups
- Authors:
- GAUNTLETT Nick, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.10.95, 1995, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The TULIP Outreach Service uses a team approach model to provide community support to people with long-term mental health problems. It was primarily set up to reach people falling through the net of mainstream services, that is, homeless or potentially homeless people and those from minority ethnic groups. Describes how the team approach works in practice. It also gives the preliminary results of an evaluation showing the team's success in targeting and supporting these clients.
Discharged: homelessness among psychiatric patients in Scotland
- Authors:
- CROCKETT Nicole, SPICKER Paul
- Publisher:
- Shelter Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 48p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Pillar to post
- Author:
- WEDDLE Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 14.1.93, 1993, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Highlights the plight of mentally ill homeless people in Scotland who are victims of poor co-ordination of services and inter-agency neglect.
Left to pick up the pieces
- Author:
- VIZE Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 8.1.93, 1993, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Considers how the community care reforms will affect single homeless people with medical or psychiatric problems.
Hard core on the streets
- Author:
- CERVI Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.1.92, 1992, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government has announced extra funding to provide short-stay places for homeless mentally ill people. Concern is being raised that in a shift from community care policy, such people may be forced back into institutional accommodation.