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Do mentally handicapped people require specialist community nursing care?
Author(s) -
JONES HILARY
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the institute of mental subnormality (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0141-2205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1981.tb00558.x
Subject(s) - mental handicap , accommodation , nursing , community service , mentally retarded , service (business) , mentally ill , nursing homes , family member , medicine , disabled people , psychology , mental health , psychiatry , mental illness , family medicine , business , political science , public relations , developmental psychology , marketing , neuroscience , cerebral palsy
The current trend in the care of mentally handicapped people is to enable them to live in the community alongside their families and friends, rather than banishing them to hospitals miles away from home. However, a family which has to cope with a handicapped member has innumerable problems to face, and it is essential that back‐up services are provided. During the past ten years a specialist community nursing service has developed throughout the country to care for the mentally handicapped within their own homes and other residential accommodation in the community. The following article evaluates the role of the community mental handicap nurse.