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Editorial: New York’s Medicaid Reform Portends Major Changes in Behavioral Health Service Delivery
The 27-member Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in January made a series of far-reaching recommendation pertaining to the delivery of mental health and substance abuse services (taken together, behavioral health services). The MRT, comprised of stakeholders from...
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Inequality in the Effects of Disaster Trauma in Women
Over the past decade, the U.S. has seen an increase in large scale disasters both man-made and natural, from 9-11-01, the Virginia Tech and the Fort Hood Shootings to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike. These events have the potential to create states of acute emotional distress in people who are...
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Mental Health Care Monitoring Teams
It is now known that some mental health care providers in New York City can fail some seriously mentally ill people. Some people try to get treatment and can’t. Others, who have been getting treatment in a program, are dropped without warning or apparent reason. Some people stop taking their...
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MHN Summer 2011 Issue
"Women’s Issues in Mental Health” Articles in This...
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MHN Spring 2011 Issue
"The Mental Health Needs of Older Adults” Articles in This...
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Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Care for Older Persons with Depression
Early in my career, I took my oldest daughter to her first dentist appointment. Making small talk, the dentist asked me what I do. I told her about my research on barriers to care, the stigma surrounding mental illness and interventions to improve treatment participation for older adults. As she...
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From the Publisher: Reflections on My Father’s Golden Years
In recent years there has been an explosion of interest and research to discover the cause and ways to successfully treat Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. There are new medications to stave off brain decline and if already in decline, to improve the brain’s cognitive ability. There are also...
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Geriatric Mental Health in New York State: A Reflection on Progress and Future Directions
The first wave of the baby boom generation turns 65 this year. In New York State, the number of older adults will grow 50% over the next twenty years from 2.7 million in 2011 to 3.9 million in 2030. 20% of these individuals have diagnosable mental and/or substance use disorders. As a result of this...
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I’m Still Here: Engagement as Treatment for Dementia
A few years ago, I was conducting training for staff in a long-term care facility in Australia. It was a two-day training program, focusing on the use of the Montessori-based Activities Programming (MAP). I have been conducting research on the use of Montessori educational methods as a means of...
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Mental Health in The Elderly: Boomers Coming of Age
According to the National Institute for Mental Health in England (2005), “The presence of Mental Health problems [for the elderly], is a strong independent predictor of poor outcomes, such as increased mortality, length of stay, institutionalism, and resource use.” In North America an...
