Housing for persons with a severe mental illness
Description:
The importance of stable, affordable, and adequate housing to meet the needs of
individuals with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) has grown alongside
the near-total transformation of long-term psychiatric care from institutional
settings to the community. Along with this has emerged research which documents
that individuals with SPMI most often identify income and housing as the most
important factors in achieving and maintaining their health. The research on
housing for persons with mental illness supports a housing first model for most
persons disabled by mental illness to meet the needs of a majority of this group,
while recognizing that an important sub-group of high needs individuals will
require supervised, sheltered accommodation which may include, in some
instances, continued treatment approaches that supplement those initiated in
inpatient units.
Type of Resource:
Literature Review
Publication Date:
2007
Location:
Calgary