SilverVue Blog SilverSearch Offers Multidimensional Care Choices (Biomedical, Psychological, and Social/Cultural) of Post-Acute Care Services for Patients Experiencing Both a Chronic Disease and Mood Disorder

By Liesl Doxey Petersen, MSW Two growing health concerns among Americans are the high incidence of both chronic disease and mental illness. Chronic diseases-including arthritis, asthma, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, hepatitis C, and stroke-cause 7 out of every 10 deaths each year (2010, CDC). Mental illness is experienced by 1 in 4 adults in a given year. Among those with mental illness are individuals who suffer from mood disorders, which have shown to affect up to 10% of Americans at any given time (2013, NAMI). Individuals at particular risk for having a mood disorder are those with chronic diseases.