Health characteristics and behaviors of adults with mental retardation residing in three living arrangements

This article examines experimental/contrast group and longitudinal studies of the changes in adaptive behavior associated with moving from state institutions to small (15 or fewer people) community living arrangements for persons with mental retardation. It reviews 15 research reports, including 18 separate studies with 1358 subjects that met specific criterion for design and recency. It summarizes outcomes in the areas of overall adaptive behavior, seven specific domains of adaptive behavior, and overall problem behavior. All eight of the experimental/contrast group studies, and 5 of the 10 longitudinal studies reported statistically significant improvement in either overall adaptive behavior or in the basic self-help/domestic domain associated with movement to the community. All 18 studies reported at least some improvement for groups moving from institutions to community living arrangements.

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Interrelationship among degree of mental retardation, living arrangements, and dental health in adults with mental retardation

Special Care in Dentistry ◽

10.1111/j.1754-4505.1997.tb00529.x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 7-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Pia Gabre ◽

Lars Gahnberg

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Dental Health

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Factors Associated With Expenditures for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) and Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons With Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) Services for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ◽

10.1352/2008.46:200-214 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 200-214 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

K. Charlie Lakin ◽

Robert Doljanac ◽

Soo-Yong Byun ◽

Roger J. Stancliffe ◽

Sarah Taub ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Living Arrangements ◽

Care Facility ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Service Needs ◽

Intermediate Care ◽

Residential Setting ◽

Community Based ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Community Based Services

Abstract This article examines expenditures for a random sample of 1,421 adult Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) and Intermediate Care Facility/Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) recipients in 4 states. The article documents variations in expenditures for individuals with different characteristics and service needs and, controlling for individual characteristics, by residential setting type, Medicaid program (ICF/MR or HCBS), and state. Annual average per-person Medicaid expenditures for HCBS recipients were less than those of ICF/MR residents ($61,770 and $128,275, respectively). HCBS recipients had less severe disability (intellectual, physical, health service needs) than ICF/MR residents. Controlling these differences, and for congregate settings, HCBS were less costly than ICFs/MR, but this distinction accounted for only 3.3% of variation in expenditures. Persons living with families receiving HCBS ($25,072) and in host families (including foster, companion, or shared living arrangements; $44,112) had the lowest Medicaid expenditures.

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Siblings of Children with Mental Retardation Living at Home or in Residential Placement

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1017/s0021963097002084 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 355-363 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Laurie Eisenberg ◽

Bruce L. Baker ◽

Jan Blacher

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Residential Placement ◽

At Home

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Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation. Edited by Nick Bouras. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. pp. 464. £35.00 (pb).

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1017/s0021963099235718 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 41 (7) ◽

pp. 949-952

Author(s):

T. P. Berney

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Developmental Disabilities ◽

Behavioral Disorders ◽

Cambridge University

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Review for "Dynamics of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Correlates with Cellular and Synaptic Properties in Primary Auditory Neurons following Afferent Deprivation"

10.1002/cne.24959/v1/review1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Fragile X ◽

Auditory Neurons ◽

Fragile X Mental Retardation ◽

Mental Retardation Protein

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Jansky-Bielschowsky syndrome, a lysosomal disease: First diagnosed cash in Oman

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100123568 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 632-633

Author(s):

Line Buhl ◽

David Muirhead

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Clinical Picture ◽

Neurological Disorder ◽

Clinical Presentation ◽

Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis ◽

Infantile Form ◽

Lysosomal Disease ◽

Juvenile Form ◽

Progressive Encephalopathy ◽

Lysosomal Diseases

There are four lysosomal diseases of which the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis is the rarest. The clinical presentation and their characteric abnormal ultrastructure subdivide them into four types. These are known as the Infantile form (Santavuori-Haltia), Late infantile form (Jansky-Bielschowsky), Juvenile form (Batten-Spielmeyer-Voght) and the Adult form (Kuph's).An 8 year old Omani girl presented wth myclonic jerks since the age of 4 years, with progressive encephalopathy, mental retardation, ataxia and loss of vision. An ophthalmoscopy was performed followed by rectal suction biopsies (fig. 1). A previous sibling had died of an undiagnosed neurological disorder with a similar clinical picture.

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