title: National survey 2007 on medical services for persons with intellectual disability in residential care in Israel.
abstract: In Israel, the Office of the Medical Director of the Ministry of Social Affairs is responsible for the medical service in residential-care centers for persons with intellectual disability (ID). A standard annual questionnaire was developed during 1997-1998, and the first national survey study was conducted in 1998. This present paper presents the findings of the seventh national survey in 2007, for which the following information was gathered via questionnaires: age, gender, and level of intellectual disability of persons served at the residential care center in question, status of the population served, functional profile, nursing, medical, and allied professional staff, number of annual examinations, preventive medicine aspects, medications, number of annual cases of infectious disease, annual unintentional injuries, number of deaths, number of hospitalizations, internal residential center hospitalization, ambulatory out-patient use, use of outside laboratory examinations, and dental care. In 2007, 6,872 persons were served in 9 government, 37 private, and 13 public centers. The average number of persons served per center was 116.47 (range 24 to 341). The survey in 2007 showed that 79% of the population with ID in residential care in Israel was between the ages of 20 and 60 years old, 44% with severe or profound ID, 43% with moderate and 13% with mild ID. Twenty-seven percent were nursing patients, and 18% were confined to a wheelchair, 34% had epilepsy, 86% were found to be receiving medication daily for chronic illness, and 51% received psychotropic medication for psychiatric illness.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Joav
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Merrick
authors.forename: Isack
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kandel
authors.forename: Meir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lotan
authors.forename: Shoshana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aspler
authors.forename: Brian Seth
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D007557:Israel; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012112:Residential Facilities