Deinstitutionalization was primarily a cost cutting measure. Sure they paid lip service to "community support", but that either never arrived or was cut shortly after.
A lot of the abuses were IMHO caused by underfunding.
Eugenics by free market.
A lot of the abuses were IMHO caused by underfunding.
Eugenics by free market.
That hit harder than I expected, for someone whose loved ones were crippled by primarily schizophrenia. Even two generations back, such people would be cared by family or community, but now they have practically no one. The system is working as intended, it seems.
Sad.