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Opening the Door - A Study of New Policies for the Mentally Handicapped
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Opening the Door - A Study of New Policies for the Mentally Handicapped
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies
and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes
the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the
inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in South Wales
stimulated public concern into the quality of life of many mentally
handicapped people in hospital. The authors discuss the continuing
gap between the idea – as laid down in the 1971 Government White
Paper, Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped, which set out
a blueprint for development in the 1980s that was to make the
antithesis of ‘hospital’ or ‘community’ obsolete – and
the reality. The study is based on detailed work in one Region by a
team of staff and postgraduate students in the Department of Social
Administration and Social Work at the University of York. The
survey covers hospital provisions, with special attention to
nursing attitudes and to problems of the ‘back wards,’ the
relationship between hospitals and their surrounding communities,
and the development of local authority social work and residential
care services. This book will be of interest to students of social
administration, social policy and health.
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