DISABILITY ASSESSMENT IN A POPULATION WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN THE COMMUNITY: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY

Abstract

With the philosophy of community care and implementation of resettlement programmes the large mental handicap hospitals have discharged the majority . . of their patients into thelocal communities. ~ e f i Barnes Hospital in St. Albans, Herts. is one of these hospitals where active resettlement programmes are going on at present, and some of its long stay patients have been in the community for some time now.