The standard of mental health care in nursing homes is a significant clinical and policy concern due to the high percentage of residents with a mental disease other than dementia. The authors examine the research on the quality of mental health treatment provided in nursing homes using Donabedian's framework for evaluating care quality based on the triad of structure, process, and outcome-based measurements. The use of improper pharmaceutical use, mental health survey deficiencies, and mental illness hospitalizations are all used as quality indicators in the literature. The standard of mental health treatment was correlated with resident welfare factors (nurse staffing), provider norms (locality), and financial factors (payer mix). The available literature reveals that people with mental illness are regularly admitted to nursing homes and that their care is typical of poor quality and connected to various resident and facility characteristics; however, further research is required.

Mental health, Nursing homes; Quality;