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The Problem That Just Wont Go Away by Stephen Trimble

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A July editorial about poorly regulated care homes reminded writer Stephen Trimble about the politics of his brother Mike's death in a care home decades earlier.
Stephen Trimble

Writer Stephen Trimble writes about a problem that has never been solved in this country: How to care for the chronically mentally ill. His mother, he says, learned from the Denver Post that her schizophrenic son, Mike Trimble, had died at 33, alone in a "care home" that failed to deliver proper care. For decades, Trimble says, we've known that we must do better.