(from the article `mental disorder`) Between about 1850 and 1950 there was a steady increase in the number of patients staying in mental hospitals. In England and Wales, for example, ...
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The process by which individuals cared for in state facilities are returned to their families or to community-based residences.
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The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dē′in-sti-tū′shŭn-ăl-i-zā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The discharge of institutionalized patients from a mental hospital into treatment programs in halfway houses and other community-based programs.
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when people spend a great deal of time in institutions such as retirement homes or prisons it is claimed that they become institutionalized â€` passive and dependent. Deinstitutionalization refers to attempts to reverse this process. See institutionalization.
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The trend toward providing treatment through community-based outpatient clinics rather than inpatient hospitals.
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