Intervention recommendations to improve uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening among individuals living with serious mental illness.

Purpose: Few efforts have been made to inform intervention design for increasing the uptake of cancer screening in individuals living with serious mental illness (ILSMI), who have lower cancer screening rates than the general population. This qualitative study explored ILSMI's and their care team member's (CTM) recommendations on the design of a breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer screening intervention for ILSMI.

Methods: Twenty-five ILSMI (mean age: 71.

Health needs of the Hispanic elderly.

This paper presents results of a study concerning the health care needs of the Hispanic elderly population of Los Angeles County. By use of the Comprehensive Assessment and Referral Evaluation (CARE) instrument, data on a sample of 704 subjects were employed to compute the scores for 22 Likert-type scales measuring the prevalence of numerous psychiatric, medical, and social problems. The data indicate that older Hispanics were affected by cognitive impairment (13.