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Rethinking Mental Health Reform: A case for reviving community-based care

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The law loosened eligibility standards for civil commitment by expanding the existing “grave disability” criterion, making it easier to detain and hospitalize persons with mental illness against their will. There is good evidence that the mandate works.

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Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace

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Recent research provides further support: when Yale New Haven Hospital tested clinicians on staff who were seventy and older, it found that almost 13% had significant cognitive deficits. It also violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Second, it magnifies the ADA and Title VII concerns.

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