Open AccessDeinstitutionalization and The Homeless Mentally Ill
Author(s) -
Sarada Me,
Jayakumar Me,
P. Poornachandrika
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of mental health and neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-9445
DOI - 10.32746/ijmhns.2020.v3.i1.63
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , institution , mentally ill , context (archaeology) , mental health , mental illness , residential care , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , nursing , gerontology , sociology , social science , paleontology , biology
According to the Oxford dictionary “Institution” is an important public body, a home providing care for people with special needs and ‘institutionalise’ is placing such persons in a residential institution. In the context of the topic being discussed, institution is a home for persons with special needs and similarly institutionalisation is placing the persons with serious mental illness, whether acute, subacute or chronic. Deinstitutionalisation is increasingly being projected as the most needed reform in the mental health care by many experts in our country, but the implications of this merit’s critical evaluation.