CHLH 330 QUESTIONS 2 1 EXAM
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Institutionalization - Answer Many people with both physical and mental
impairments are unable to care for
themselves independently
First mental hospital - Answer First hospital opened in 1773 in Williamsburg,
Va
- Still operational today
Long history of abuse, intensive treatments
and neglect to persons with psychiatric
impairments
Dorothea Dix - Answer Advocated for improvements
in care 1841
Common treatments prior to 1950s - Answer Electric shock therapy
- Insulin coma therapy
- Lobotomies
psych drugs - Answer mental treatment introduced in the 1950s
deinstitutionalization movement - Answer Began with small community pilot programs
for
individuals who responded well to antipsychotic
medications
Supreme court laws - Answer limited involuntary
institutionalization
- Minimum standards set for care in institutions
1970s - Answer Medicaid & Medicare began to provide more coverage for mental health
disabilities
, Current state - mental hospitals - Answer • limit treatment options for people with severe
mental impairments
• 40-60 state psychiatric beds per 100,000
people nationwide
Nursing homes - Answer • Inpatient facility providing 24/7 care
- 1.5 million Americans are in Long Term Care
- Patients stay for a long period of time
Illinois - Answer to spend the highest
percent of Medicaid long-term dollars on
Nursing Home care and the lowest on home
based care
cost of attendant - Answer The average yearly cost of institutionalization =
$57,000 vs. the average yearly cost of independent
community-based living = $26,000
Olmstead v. L.C - Answer considered discrimination to "segregate" people with
disabilities in nursing home or other institutional
settings.
- People are required to be given the option to live in
the community (if medically appropriate)
Integration - Answer Physical distance between persons with disabilities
and abled bodied individuals is reduced
Use of same equipment and services
People with disabilities are part of the same groups
and communities
Same access to resources and opportunities
including disabled people into the community
Independent Living Movement - Answer Premise: people with even the most severe
LATEST UPDATE
Institutionalization - Answer Many people with both physical and mental
impairments are unable to care for
themselves independently
First mental hospital - Answer First hospital opened in 1773 in Williamsburg,
Va
- Still operational today
Long history of abuse, intensive treatments
and neglect to persons with psychiatric
impairments
Dorothea Dix - Answer Advocated for improvements
in care 1841
Common treatments prior to 1950s - Answer Electric shock therapy
- Insulin coma therapy
- Lobotomies
psych drugs - Answer mental treatment introduced in the 1950s
deinstitutionalization movement - Answer Began with small community pilot programs
for
individuals who responded well to antipsychotic
medications
Supreme court laws - Answer limited involuntary
institutionalization
- Minimum standards set for care in institutions
1970s - Answer Medicaid & Medicare began to provide more coverage for mental health
disabilities
, Current state - mental hospitals - Answer • limit treatment options for people with severe
mental impairments
• 40-60 state psychiatric beds per 100,000
people nationwide
Nursing homes - Answer • Inpatient facility providing 24/7 care
- 1.5 million Americans are in Long Term Care
- Patients stay for a long period of time
Illinois - Answer to spend the highest
percent of Medicaid long-term dollars on
Nursing Home care and the lowest on home
based care
cost of attendant - Answer The average yearly cost of institutionalization =
$57,000 vs. the average yearly cost of independent
community-based living = $26,000
Olmstead v. L.C - Answer considered discrimination to "segregate" people with
disabilities in nursing home or other institutional
settings.
- People are required to be given the option to live in
the community (if medically appropriate)
Integration - Answer Physical distance between persons with disabilities
and abled bodied individuals is reduced
Use of same equipment and services
People with disabilities are part of the same groups
and communities
Same access to resources and opportunities
including disabled people into the community
Independent Living Movement - Answer Premise: people with even the most severe
