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Older Adults & Mental Health Services in Iowa. OVERVIEW. The Business Case The Historical Record Vision for the Future. THE BUSINESS CASE. Demographic imperative Service Use Quality of life Financial inefficiencies. Increasing Number of Older Iowans.
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OVERVIEW • The Business Case • The Historical Record • Vision for the Future
THE BUSINESS CASE • Demographic imperative • Service Use • Quality of life • Financial inefficiencies
SERVICE USE • Community based services • Nursing homes & other residential settings
Community based care • Specialty clinics – CMHCs • Inpatient psychiatric hospitals • Primary care • Community hospitals
County-based mental health Parkview Center, Sac City
Kaskie et al. Study (2007) • Few CMHCs target programs towards older adults • Little use of CMHCs by older adults • Not a lot of specialty contact (< 20% see a specialist in outpt setting)
Buckwalter UIHC Study • Admission status • 65% Mood Disorder • 35% Dementia • 50% Mixed
Kaskie et al. (2007) • Not a lot of specialty inpatient care
Kaskie Medicare Study • Most common place to obtain care • More than 70% of MH visits in a generalist outpatient office
Kaskie Medicare Study • Second most common place to obtain care • Nearly 20% of MH visits in a generalist inpatient and outpatient services
Emergency Care • Not coded
Care for Co-occurring Dx • 1 out of 5 = MH dx only • Very little co-occurring MH dx • 4 out of 5 = MH + other DX
Targeted efforts • Third most common place to receive TX • Dementia Special Care • 65 Specialized Care Units • 1,200 beds
Suicide Rate by Age Per 100,000 Older people: 12.7% of 1999 population, but 18.8% of suicides. (Hoyert, 1999)
October 7, 2000 (AP) Actor Richard Farnsworth, a former stuntman and two-time Academy Award nominee, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday night. He was 80.
EXPENDITURES • Total Medicare Expenditures: $211.4 Billion • Total MH Expenditures: $1.2 Billion (0.57%) • Outpatient Mental Health: $ 718 Million (0.34%) CMS, 2001
Depression in Older Adults and Health Care Costs Unutzer, et al., 1997; JAMA
New Hampshire Total Monthly Costs Per Person Over Age 65 $4,000 Medicaid Medicare $3,500 $3,000 $2,500 $2,000 $1,500 $1,000 $500 $0 COPD Diabetes Depression Cardiac Dysrhymias Dementia Alzheimer's Hypertension Schizophrenia Heart Failure Osteoarthritis Cerebrovascular
Medicare Expenditures on Alzheimer’s Disease • AD complicates treatment of coexisting conditions • Inability to manage care • Hospitalized AD patients stay longer, cost more
Positive Aging Act Reintroduced • May 31, 2005 – Last Wednesday, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) and Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) announced the introduction of the Positive Aging Act of 2005 to improve access to mental health services for America’s senior citizens.
IOWA FORUMS • Quick Fixes (1998) • Iowa Mental Health Forum (2000) • Mental Health System (2001)
Key Findings • public mental health system is in transition…. • increased use of managed behavioral healthcare to administer services….
Problems • older adults are not involved in managed behavioral healthcare… • data is difficult to obtain…
Older Adults Roundtable • Many persons did not know where to seek help. • Dementia should be included in mental health care • Implement multi-disciplinary treatment approaches
Training Efforts (2002) Training to Enhance ServiceDelivery toOlder Adults with Mental Illness Lila Starr, Project Officer Funding Period: April 15, 2002 to September 30, 2002
Four Training Sessions (N=268) • Creston • Dubuque • Ottumwa • Spencer
Iowa Public Health Conference Mental Health and Aging: Programs and Services in the State of IowaAmes, IA 2003
Iowa Department Human Services Collaborative Models of Mental Health Care Pilot ProgramsLila Starr, DHS 2004