Friday, December 29, 2006

Living and Dying with Mental Illness

People living with severe and persistent mental illness are likely to come to the end of their lives with less economic resources and fewer social supports than the average American. As a result, facing terminal illness, they more likely to face great difficulties in piecing together a positive, caretaking network, less likely to have the option of dying at home, and consequently more likely to find themselves dependent on institutional care.

(Cookie Gant ran into this very problem.)

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