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The costs of community care for former long‐stay psychiatric hospital residents
Author(s) -
Knapp Martin,
BA Jennifer Beecham,
BA Angela Hallam,
Fenyo Andrew
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.1993.tb00218.x
Subject(s) - mental health , care in the community , mental healthcare , health care , nursing , medicine , psychiatry , mental health care , economic cost , economic growth , economics , neoclassical economics
Support for people with long‐term mental health problems is gradually being relocated from hospital to community settings. One of the questions raised by the shifting locus of care concerns the cost implications. This paper describes the cost of supporting people with long‐term mental health problems who have moved to the community after many years in hospital. After summarizing the national and local policy contexts, and the methodology, the paper describes the people who have moved to the community, the services they use, and the cost of community care.