Open AccessSHELTERED CARE RESIDENCE: Ten‐Year Personal Outcomes
Author(s) -
Segal Steven P.,
Kotler Pamela L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of orthopsychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.959
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1939-0025
pISSN - 0002-9432
DOI - 10.1037/h0079409
Subject(s) - residence , social functioning , mental health , psychology , gerontology , mentally ill , demography , medicine , psychiatry , clinical psychology , mental illness , sociology , distress
A ten‐year follow‐up study of 393 seriously mentally ill sheltered‐care residents examined the type and degree of handicap characterizing the sample and estimated effects of ten‐year residence. Results showed higher levels of helper‐supported social functioning and of physical and mental health, accompanied by significant reductions in independent social functioning.