Improving the transfer of care to general practice for people with intellectual disabilities : development of a guideline
By: Wullink, Magda.
Contributor(s): Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, Henny van | Akker, Marjan van den | et al.
Series: Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 4 (4) 2007: 241-247.Publisher: 2007Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
| POLICY | HEALTH CARE | DEINSTITUTIONALISATION | THE NETHERLANDSSummary: Explains how, in the Netherlands, a public policy shift has led to a movement of people with intellectual disabilities from residential care facilities to normative housing in their communities. Along with these physical transfers, medical care has also been transferred from specialty intellectual disability physicians associated with the residential facilities to general practitioners native to the community. Describes the guidelines developed to facilitate this change.
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Explains how, in the Netherlands, a public policy shift has led to a movement of people with intellectual disabilities from residential care facilities to normative housing in their communities. Along with these physical transfers, medical care has also been transferred from specialty intellectual disability physicians associated with the residential facilities to general practitioners native to the community. Describes the guidelines developed to facilitate this change.
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