| Abstract: | Summary This paper deals with accommodation without resident staff providedin the community for ex-psychiatric patients. Existing evidenceabout this kind of accommodation shows that it is provided largelyfor an elderly, institutionalised, chronically handicapped group.Recent trends in hospital provision (especially the closureof long stay beds) would seem to suggest that in the futuresuch accommodation may have to provide more for a younger, morelively population coming from the community itself. A survey of such accommodation in one metropolitan local authorityarea was carried out in 1977–78 to investigate if suchchanges were being reflected in the population and regimes ofhomes. The results indicate that to some extent, this is thecase. Policy implications arising from these findings are discussed. |
