Chlh 330 Quiz 2 1 Exam Questions And
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Institutionalization - Answers✔Many people with both physical and mental
impairments are unable to care for
themselves independently
First mental hospital - Answers✔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 - Answers✔Advocated for improvements
in care 1841
Common treatments prior to 1950s - Answers✔Electric shock therapy
- Insulin coma therapy
- Lobotomies
psych drugs - Answers✔mental treatment introduced in the 1950s
deinstitutionalization movement - Answers✔Began with small community pilot programs for
individuals who responded well to antipsychotic
medications
Supreme court laws - Answers✔limited involuntary
institutionalization
- Minimum standards set for care in institutions
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1970s - Answers✔Medicaid & Medicare began to provide more coverage for mental health
disabilities
Current state - mental hospitals - Answers✔• limit treatment options for people with severe
mental impairments
• 40-60 state psychiatric beds per 100,000
people nationwide
Nursing homes - Answers✔• Inpatient facility providing 24/7 care
- 1.5 million Americans are in Long Term Care
- Patients stay for a long period of time
Illinois - Answers✔to spend the highest
percent of Medicaid long-term dollars on
Nursing Home care and the lowest on home
based care
cost of attendant - Answers✔The average yearly cost of institutionalization =
$57,000 vs. the average yearly cost of independent
community-based living = $26,000
Olmstead v. L.C - Answers✔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 - Answers✔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
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