Process of Deinstitutionalization of Aging Individuals With Severe and Disabling Mental Disorders: A Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For more than 60 years, psychiatric services has gradually gone from an asylum model to a community model. This change has led to the emergence of a deinstitutionalization movement. This movement seems to have left behind long-term hospitalized aging individuals with severe and disabling mental disorders. The objective of this article is to conduct a review on the challenges and issues associated with the process of deinstitutionalization among hospitalized aging individuals with severe and disabling mental disorders.

Methods

Using PRISMA statement, the research methodology was carried out in English and French in 16 databases with a combination of 3 lists of keywords. The selection process was then followed by a thematic analysis which aimed at categorizing by th

SUBMITTER: Salime S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987193 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature