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Steps to independence: a paper on the rights of people with mental handicaps to live as ordinary citizens
- Author:
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH AUTHORITIES
- Publisher:
- National Association of Health Authorities
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Looks at the legislative barriers preventing mentally handicapped people from living a normal life in the community.
Moving from hospital to the community: factors influencing the life styles of people with mental handicap
- Author:
- ATKINSON D.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 16(1), 1988, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
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Not an ordinary life
- Author:
- DAY P.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 16(1), 1988, pp.4-7.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes the experience of life of a long-term hospital patient and discusses the problems he would encounter in moving to community care.
Leaving long stay hospitals
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.10.88, 1988, pp.i-vii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Various short articles on how discharge from long-stay mental illness and mental handicap hospitals has happened throughout the country, how it can affect the individuals, and research into how those individuals themselves feel about their discharge.