Grosser R C, Conley E K
Needs Assessment Unit, New York State Office of Mental Health, Albany 12229, USA.
Psychiatr Serv. 1995 Apr;46(4):390-4. doi: 10.1176/ps.46.4.390.
The need to plan for the future housing needs of adults with serious mental illness who reside with aging parents is an issue of increasing importance to mental health policy makers as well as family members. This study provides estimates of the number of adults with severe and persistent mental illness in New York State who could be expected to experience housing disruption because of their parents' death.
Demographic modeling methods were applied to data from a variety of sources, including surveys of mentally ill adults receiving public mental health services in New York State and demographic statistics on the general state population.
An estimated 13,400 to 49,600 adults with severe and persistent mental illness who receive services from the public mental health system in New York State reside with one or both parents. Within this group, between 300 and 1,200 adults could have been expected to experience housing disruption due to parental death each year between 1990 and 1994. Demographic trends indicate that through 2009, these disruptions will increase at a faster rate than growth in the state's general adult population.
Additional housing with mental health supports and other programs will be needed to accommodate the growing number of severely mentally ill adults whose housing may be disrupted because of the death of their parents.
对于与年迈父母同住的患有严重精神疾病的成年人而言，规划其未来住房需求，这一问题对于心理健康政策制定者和家庭成员来说愈发重要。本研究估算了纽约州可能因父母去世而面临住房中断的患有严重且持续性精神疾病的成年人数量。
将人口统计学建模方法应用于来自多种来源的数据，包括对纽约州接受公共心理健康服务的成年精神病患者的调查以及该州总人口的人口统计学统计数据。
估计有13400至49600名接受纽约州公共心理健康系统服务的患有严重且持续性精神疾病的成年人与父母一方或双方同住。在这个群体中，1990年至1994年期间，每年预计有300至1200名成年人会因父母去世而面临住房中断。人口统计学趋势表明，到2009年，这些住房中断情况的增长速度将快于该州成年总人口的增长速度。
需要更多配备心理健康支持服务的住房及其他项目，以安置越来越多可能因父母去世而住房受到影响的严重精神疾病成年人。
