Rife will explore Virginia policies that keep geriatric mental health patients locked in state psychiatric hospitals long after they are medically cleared for discharge.
- Unwanted care, unexpected bills: When their dad was kept in a state hospital against their will, a family learns that they will bear the financial burden
- No way out of state hospitals for some elderly psychiatric patients
- 'All of us have a history': Fighting stigma to find homes for Virginia's elderly psychiatric patients