Psychiatric and Psycho Social Rehabilitation of Long Stay Patients in Mental Hospitals: Practical Challenges

Since the initiation of deinstitutionalization of patients suffering from mental illness, provision of easy access to health care facilities, community participation and rehabilitation of such patients has become practical challenge. Still now patients suffering from long term psychiatric illness lacks adequate care and opportunities which preventing them to become the part of mainstream of the society. Either they spend their life in long term psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation centres or their life expectancy become shorter due to various adversities which they encounter. It is the high time to address difficulties in rehabilitation of long stay patients at various closed wards of psychiatry hospitals.