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Australia's National Mental Health Strategy and Deinstitutionalization: Some Empirical Results
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2005 Objective: To determine the role of the National Mental Health Strategy in the deinstitutionalization of patients in psychiatric hospitals in Queensland.
Roman W Scheurer, Harvey Whiteford
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Death and deinstitutionalization
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1981Death rates during a period of rapid deinstitutionalization of a state mental hospital population showed consistent reductions that were statistically significant in the elderly patient population 65 years and older. These reductions were most marked for deaths due to pneumonia; there was a moderate decrease in cardiac deaths, and essentially no change
T J, Craig, S P, Lin
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An overview of deinstitutionalization
New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1983AbstractWe are now beginning to realize that treating the most severely impaired of our mentally ill citizens involves the thoughtful conceptualization of complex public policy problems.
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In Defense of Deinstitutionalization
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1979Political and economic decisions contributing to deinstitutionalization had widespread support from psychiatrists, social reformers, and civil libertarians. The fortuitous advent of Medicaid and SSI abetted movement out of institutions, but these federal programs impede efforts to reform remaining state hospitals--yet progress has been achieved.
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Deinstitutionalization at the Crossroads
Psychiatric Services, 1988Much has gone wrong with deinstitutionalization. To get back on course, the author says, we should acknowledge that while deinstitutionalization was a positive step, it has gone too far--that some of the long-term mentally ill now in the community need highly structured residential care. The long-term mentally ill should be made the highest priority in
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Deinstitutionalization in Context
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1979Unlike other policy developments, which are regular and cumulative or even circular, reforms in mental health have been characterized by a peak-trough movement. Public responses continue to be very different from professional responses to achieving the practical limits of mental health.
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Deinstitutionalization and Suicide
Crisis, 2003Copyright © 2003 Hogrefe and Huber ; Robert D ...
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The demography of deinstitutionalization
New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1983AbstractOnce defined as long‐term residents of psychiatric hospitals, the chronically mentally ill today are a heterogeneous population living in a variety of institutional and community settings.
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Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1979
Whether a retarded child can be cared for at home depends primarily on the ability of his or her family to function as primary caretakers. Not surprisingly, then, the rate at which retarded children are deinstitutionalized is being slowed by this country's failure to emphasize programs that are supportive of these children's families.
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Whether a retarded child can be cared for at home depends primarily on the ability of his or her family to function as primary caretakers. Not surprisingly, then, the rate at which retarded children are deinstitutionalized is being slowed by this country's failure to emphasize programs that are supportive of these children's families.
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Abstract The deinstitutionalization policy sought to replace institutional care for populations in need of care and control with prosocial community-based alternatives. U.S. institutional populations, however, have increased since the policy’s inception by 205%. As implemented, with the assistance of advocacy and cost-cutting factions,
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Abstract The deinstitutionalization policy sought to replace institutional care for populations in need of care and control with prosocial community-based alternatives. U.S. institutional populations, however, have increased since the policy’s inception by 205%. As implemented, with the assistance of advocacy and cost-cutting factions,
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