Adults With I/DD & Mental Illness Five Times As Likely To Have Delayed Hospital Discharges

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who also have a co-occurring mental illness are almost five times as likely to experience a delayed hospital discharge as adults with mental illness only, according to data collected by the Ontario, Canada-based Institute for Clinical Evaluative Services (ICES). Over a six-year data collection period ICES found that 6.1% of adults with I/DD and a mental illness had a hospital stay in which they stayed at least one day after being ready for discharge, compared to 3.3% of adults with I/DD alone, and 0.7 . . .