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Given the medical and socio -
economic difficulties often faced by people with mental illness, and the lack of research into the other medical conditions they might suffer from, the authors set out to discover, using publicly available data, what proportion of US adults experience each combination of mental illness, substance abuse / dependence and
chronic mental conditions.
These include poor mental health,
chronic disease and physical health, behaviour
difficulties, and poor educational, social and
economic outcomes.
Nation - representative longitudinal data collected from 1993 to 2007 and consisting of 2 cohorts were used, and the trajectories of the following 6 successful aging indicators were analyzed:
chronic diseases, physical function
difficulties, depressive symptoms, social support, social participation, and
economic satisfaction.