Places of social poverty and service dependency of people with intellectual disabilities: a case study in Baltimore, Maryland.
In the United States, post-asylum geographies of people with intellectual disabilities implicate the condition of service dependency in their social impoverishment, here defined as "isolation from the community and lack of real friendships and relationships" (The importance of income. The Self-Determination National Program Office of the Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, Concord, 1998, p. 2). Social historical geographies of people with intellectual disabilities, both general and local to Baltimore, Maryland, contextualize how one voluntary service organization re/created service dependency and social poverty of people with intellectual disabilities through residential location decisions.
Metzel
Deborah S
DS
University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125, USA. deborah.metzel@umb.edu
D015142:Baltimore; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011203:Poverty; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012931:Social Environment; D012934:Social Isolation; D014505:Urban Population