Sharing the caring: a Swedish approach to short-term care of mentally handicapped children.
The setting up of a short-stay home, which offers temporary care for mentally handicapped children living with their parents in the Swedish county of Ostergötland, is described. It illustrates an approach which parents, care staff and the supervising psychologist have all found satisfactory in contrast to the provision available in hospital units.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008318:Malpractice; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D013548:Sweden