A community member asks a nurse, "People diagnosed with mental illnesses used to go to a state hospital. Why has that changed?" Select the nurse's accurate responses. (Select all that apply.)

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The community is a less restrictive alternative than hospitals for the treatment of people with mental illness. Funding for treatment of mental illness remains largely inadequate but now focuses on community rather than institutional care. Antipsychotic medications improve more symptoms of mental illness; hence, management of psychiatric disorders has improved. Rates of mental illness have increased, not decreased. Hospitals were closed because funding shifted to the community. Conditions in institutions have improved.

A Community Member Asks a Nurse, "People Diagnosed with Mental