Can street medicine do more for mental health?
It’s a staggering number of people living unsheltered with some of the most debilitating conditions.‘Being homeless is a form of insanity’
Feldman and his team’s first stop is near a freeway onramp at Hollywood and Van Ness. The patients Feldman was hoping to find here have disappeared. A left behind cardboard sign reads: “Pregnant traveler in need of supplies. Everything helps.”But Feldman and his team pressed on. They decide to visit a patient they’ve been following for some time now.
As she had her blood drawn, Tallman offered what she believes could help people living on the streets with a mental illness. “So there needs to be street medicine that follows them for mental health, longitudinally and then they’ll be more housing ready, they’ll be more able to organize themselves and follow through on appointment and paperwork and interact with people and be successful in housing,” Feldman said.Tifani Caesar says the mentally unhealthy have been alienated.
“A psychologist or somebody on staff for people to talk to. Somebody that’s always available. So if you have an issue, you can go and try and find some conflict resolution.” Rountree and her colleagues incorporated SMI diagnosis and treatment logged in county records in their research.
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