title: [Care of adult mentally retarded patients in institutions. Comparative study of homes and cantonal psychiatric clinics in the city and environs of Basle].
abstract: Mentally retarded adults frequently live in psychatric hospitals because no other place could be found for them. Analysis of data of all mentally handicapped residents in psychatric clinics and special homes in two swiss cantons showed that in no case permanent hospitalisation was justified by severity of additional handicaps nor by behavioural disturbances. The main reason for permanent hospitalisation is practically always the lack of other possibilities of permanent care.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D012112:Residential Facilities; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Uber die Betreuung erwachsener Geistigbehinderter in Institutionen. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung von Wohnheimen und den kantonalen psychiatrischen Kliniken in Basel-Stadt und Basel-Land.