Facilitating Aadhaar and Voting for Long-Stay Patients: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center

‘Family centric rehabilitation’ for persons with mental illness in India: Conceptual framework using evidence-based case studies’

“…Facilitation of identity cards ensures right for political participation (right to vote). It is considered to be the gate way for getting welfare benefits, and for opening the bank accounts for persons disability due to mental illness (Sivakumar and James, 2019). The PRS team has been actively collaborating with NGOs, governmental departments and various stakeholders in the system for facilitating welfare benefits, social security schemes, skill training and job placement plays a major role in rehabilitation and recovery of a person disabled due to mental illness (Harish et al, 2020;Roy et al, 2019).…”

Need-based rehabilitation program for women with mental illness under long-term admission in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A feasibility study

“…Closed ward refers to the hospital ward where abandoned women with severe mental illness are admitted. These women have no possibility of going back to their families and have no choice other than accepting the security of an institution (Sivakumar & James, 2019). WMI in the closed ward are provided with essential basic needs including food, shelter and medical & psychiatric treatment.…”