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Deinstitutionalization and community living: intellectual disability services in Britain, Scandinavia and the USA
- Editors:
- MANSELL Jim, ERICSSON Kent
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 307p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative study reviewing the changes that have taken place over the last 25 years in services to people with learning difficulties, focusing in particular on the development of care in the community. Includes papers on: closing institutions in New York State; issues in community services in Britain; deinstitutionalisation in the Norwegian welfare state; housing for people with learning difficulties; supported living programmes in the USA; the immediate psychological effects of deinstitutionalisation; transition to community services in Norway;and the impact on families of service users.