Community Integration for Older Adults with Mental Illnesses: Overcoming Barriers and Seizing Opportunities

Editors

Anne Lezak, M.P.A.

Christopher D. Ringwald, M.S., M.A.

Susan Milstrey Wells

Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.

Co-Editor

Willard Mays, M.A.

Assistant Deputy Director

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration

Authors

Stephen Bartels, M.D., M.S.

Director of Aging Services Research

New Hampshire Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center

Galen Brewer

Coordinator, Older Adult Services

Texas Department of Mental Health/Mental Retardation

Willard Mays, M.A.

Assistant Deputy Director

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration

Bob Rawlings

Director, OBRA Long Term Care

Oklahoma Department of Mental Health

Reviewers

Robert Bernstein, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Carol Bianco

Director of Mental Health

Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.

Larry Dupree, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Aging and Mental Health

Florida Mental Health Institute

Sanford I. Finkel, M.D.

Director, Geriatric Institute

Council for Jewish Elderly, Chicago

Hikmah Gardiner

First Vice President

Older Adult Consumer Mental Health Alliance

Barry Lebowitz, Ph.D.

Chief, Adult and Geriatric Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch

National Institute of Mental Health

Linda Powell

Executive Director

Older Adult Consumer Mental Health Alliance

Sally Steiner, M.S.W., C.S.W.

Senior Policy Specialist, Office of Services to the Aging

Lansing, MI, Department of Community Health

Laura Trejo, M.S.G., M.P.A.

District Chief, Countywide Older Adult Programs

Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

Paul Wohlford, Ph.D.

Division of State and Community Systems Development

Center for Mental Health Services