Conservatorships Can Result in a 'Bottleneck' Effect in Psychiatric Hospitals | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

At a time when public and private agencies and the legal system are grappling with how to best assist people who live at the intersection of homelessness and mental illness during a global pandemic, UCLA researchers have found mental health conservatorships for people with disabling, severe mental illness who are also homeless can result in lengthy psychiatric hospitalizations.

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