Group homes for mentally handicapped adults: Residents view on contacts and supports. British Journal of Mental Sub- normality, 1982, 28(2), 29-34.Malin, N. A., 1982, Group homes for mentally handicapped adults: residents views on contacts and support, Brit. J. Mental Subnormality , 28:...
State hospital staff members compared 72 retarded adult patients who had been successfully placed in group homes in the community with 13 patients who had been placed but rehospitalized. No significant differences were found between the groups on the four variables of sex, age at the time of the...
Designing home personas to represent the homes of families caring for children with medical complexity. Applied Ergonomics 2023; 106: 103900 doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103900 69 Annie Haakenstad, Jamal Akeem Yearwood, Nancy Fullman, Corinne Bintz, Kelly Bienhoff, Marcia R Weaver, Vishnu ...
For more than 50 years, guide dogs have been trained to help humans with vision challenges live without boundaries and enjoy independence in their homes, offices, and the community at large. Given dogs' ability to be trained, along with their skills, it seemed unavoidable that there would be...
Before the solar panels and lamps arrived, villagers had only candles to light their homes. This prevented adults from doing serious work at night, and it made studying difficult for children as well. As for physicians, they have difficulty treating patients and performing operations at night ...
There are two main reasons for people leaving their homes: poverty and less affordable houses due to bad economic conditions. Other reasons include: domestic violence, divorce, and mental illness. Living without a home makes people main targets of violence activities and besides, these homeless ...
Our Homeowner ReadiLine™, for instance, combines a mortgage with a line of credit (see page 19). Meanwhile, the BMO Zero Down Mortgage enables qualified individuals to buy their own homes without having to save for a down payment. Generally, the Zero Down Mortgage is appropriate for ...
The phenomenon of resistance to the establishment of group homes for mentally ill adults is well-documented. The extent to which such homes, once established, do or do not create problems for communities is less clear. The current study examined the impressions of residents of a group home ...
Today, many state-licensed group homes for mentally disabled adults have come to resemble their predecessor psychiatric institutions in that they segregate residents from the community at large. In 2010, a court found that private group homes in New York discriminated against the mentally disabled in...
Living in the community: a study of group homes for mentally retarded peopleJean D. Wineman