The privatisation of the back wards: the accommodation of people with intellectual disability and people with mental illness in licensed boarding houses in Sydney

The privatisation of the back wards: the accommodation of people with intellectual disability and people with mental illness in licensed boarding houses in Sydney

This thesis explores the use of licensed boarding houses in Inner Sydney as an accommodation option for people with intellectual disability and people with mental illness. Deinstitutionalisation, a significant social policy of the last century was introduced into Australia in the 1960’s and 1970’s,...

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Main Author: Drake, Gabrielle M
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2010
Subjects:
Inner Sydney
human rights principles
licensed boarding houses
mental illness
community-based accommodation
intellectual disability
deinstitutionalisation
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1087

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