Serving the Underserved in an Underserved Setting
Ayda K Tefera, Lea T Grinberg · 2025
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Description
Ayda Tefera and Lea Grinberg described a community outreach project that brought mental health care to a shelter for homeless older adults in Ethiopia, in a 2025 report. When the country's second-largest mental hospital became a COVID center, its patients, above all older people with memory loss, lost their care base. The project paired the hospital team with a local nursing home shelter.
Staff visited the shelter four times a week to find complex cases and tailor care plans. The shelter held about 5,000 people, most with intellectual disability, mental illness, or dementia. Assessments leaned on history and a brief mental test, since records and informants were scarce. Many residents met a clinician for the first time through the program, and many carried several physical illnesses at once. The report offers the model as a template for care in poor settings.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ayda K Tefera, Lea T Grinberg |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |