Deinstitutionalization for older adults with severe mental retardation: Results from Australia

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 397-412+442

  Young, Louise ^a   Ashman, Adrian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; DECISION MAKING; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 4344622419     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2004)109<397:DFOAWS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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