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Institutionalization
Medical Definition: | The caring for individuals in institutions and their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution. |
Guide Notes: | coord IM with type of institution (IM) if pertinent; institutionalization of mentally ill: consider also COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL |
Also Called: | Institutionalized Persons |
Deinstitutionalization - The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the individual's family, the community, and the health care system. |
Institutionalization Medical Definitions and Terms
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