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What does deinstitutionalization mean?

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Noun
  1. the process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm
  2. the process of releasing a person from a facility where their freedom to leave has been restrained
  3. the process of reducing a person's dependence on an institutional environment
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All agree that if deinstitutionalization does in fact proceed from a will to reinvest the sick with decision-making powers and to count on the quality of home care, it must never be the result of budget cuts.
As a result of ongoing deinstitutionalization, many of these people have mental health problems.
The strategy included six goals to be attained by 2015, one of which was deinstitutionalization of children with disabilities.
This isn't what the initial proponents of deinstitutionalization had in mind.
It has been 50 years since deinstitutionalization became the way we dealt with the mentally ill.
The fiscal squeeze has highlighted the inadequacy of community services to accommodate deinstitutionalization, and waiting lists have grown steadily in many states.

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