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In the United States, deinstitutionalization has resulted in chroncially mentally ill residing in deplorable living conditions with little or no community support systems. Deinstitutionalization is “a process involving two elements: (1) the eschewal of traditional institutional setting for the care of the chronically mentally ill, and (2) the concurrent expansion of community-based services for the treatment of these individuals” (Bachrach, 1976).
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Christman Mandernach, R., Mann, J.B. (1984). Sheltered Housing for the Elderly Chronically Mentally Ill. In: van Eimeren, W., Engelbrecht, R., Flagle, C.D. (eds) Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69939-9_53
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