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Book Review: Community Residences for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
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This article is published in The Journal of The Association for Persons With Severe Handicaps.The article was published on 1988-06-01. It has received 0 citations till now.read more
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Will there always be an institution? I. The impact of epidemiological trends.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors predicted that institutions will be phased out because of five trends: development of nonresidential community services; new conceptualizations of and attitudes toward residential services; increased usage of individual rather than group residential placements; provision of small, specialized group residences; and a decline in the incidence and prevalence of severe and profound retardation due to reduction in the birthrate of high risk groups, improvement of health services for the population generally and for high-risk groups specifically, increased practice of abortion, general environmental betterment, and early childhood education.