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Deinstitutionalisation - time to move on to legislation?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Carrigan, Nicky |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | The HSE Working Group on Congregated Settings for people with disabilities, set up in 2007, published its report entitled Time to Move on from Congregated Settings – A Strategy for Community Inclusion in June of this year.1 The report represents a significant step forward in promoting the deinstitutionalisation agenda in Ireland, with its core recommendations being that all individuals with a disability living in ‘congregated settings’ (a residential setting where the person lives with 10 or more people) should be moved into the community and that the institutional settings in which they live should be closed. The report applies to 72 locations in Ireland where 4,000 people with disabilities are living in congregated settings. However, it doesn’t include people with disabilities who live in community housing already, in nursing homes, in HSE run units for physical and neurological disabilities, mental health facilities or so called ‘intentional communities’,2 such as the L’Arche and Camphill Communities. Figures from the Health Research Board and the Department of Health and Children indicate that there are over 300 people with a diagnosis of intellectual disability still resident in psychiatric hospitals3 and over 750 in former psychiatric hospitals or HSE run institutions.4 |
| Starting Page | 182 |
| Ending Page | 184 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/BCE690C3BF79DFAD10A2AB71D02B1D46/S0790966700011617a.pdf/deinstitutionalisation_time_to_move_on_to_legislation.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 30200003v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700011617 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0790966700011617 |
| Journal | Irish journal of psychological medicine |
| Volume Number | 28 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
