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A high proportion of the severely mentally disabled who used to reside in hospitals Eire now living in the cities; many have been placed there because of the availability of large old hotels and board and care homes; others have drifted there on their own. Still another contributing factor to the concentration of these patients in the cities may be the essentially urban nature of the deinstitutionalization model (Bachrach 1977); the architects of the deinstitutionalization movement have been, for the most part, urban in their residence and orientation. In any event, the result has been the clustering of thousands of expatients in the lower socioeconomic sections of our large urban areas.
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Lamb, H.R. (1983). Serving Long-Term Patients in the Cities. In: Barofsky, I., Budson, R.D. (eds) The Chronic Psychiatric Patient in the Community. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6308-8_15
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