title: The St. Louis Community Homes Program: graduated support for long-term care.
abstract: The authors describe a group-home program that has been operating successfully for three years in St. Louis, Mo. The program offers ex-mental hospital patients the opportunity to gradually acquire experience in living independently in the community. The success of a living arrangement in which an apartment is shared by a group of patients demonstrates long-term chronic patients can often adjust to minimally supervised living arrangements and that many ex-mental hospital patients can use this experience as a springboard to personal growth and eventual autonomy.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008923:Missouri; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D012112:Residential Facilities; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior