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An ordinary life : comprehensive locally-based residential services for mentally handicapped people

Author:

King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)

Publication date:

1982

Abstract:

The authors of this paper came together to study the development of comprehensive local residential services for mentally handicapped people. Although government policy had urged a move towards community-based services for mentally handicapped people, the numbers admitted to mental handicap hospitals for long-term care went up during the 1960s and ...