title: The capital costs of alternative residential facilities for mentally handicapped people.
abstract: This paper examines the capital costs and accommodation provided in three different types of residential facility for mentally handicapped people--a large campus hospital, a small campus hospital and a network of individually-sited hospital units. The findings do not indicate any economy arising from increased size, or from centralization of facilities on a single site. These findings, together with the other research cited, have implications for the design of future residential services.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002201:Capital Expenditures; D002648:Child; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000191:economics*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008297:Male