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• Asylum-type institutions: Large facility which is not community integrated and
which offers general care for residents including a place to live, work, activities
during the day, medical and psychiatric care. As some asylums are exclusively
for the housing of persons with intellectual disability, others have specific settings
for persons with ID, to elderly persons or are destined to receive persons with
intellectual disability as well as persons with mental disabilities.
• Psychiatric: The provision of care to persons with intellectual disability in a
hospital that provides mental health services in at least one separate psychiatric
unit with specially allocated staff and space for the treatment of persons with
mental illness.
• Forensic: Provision of care to persons with intellectual disability in a specialized
hospital for criminal offenders.
• Specialized in-patient psychiatric institution: Provision of care to persons with
intellectual disability in a specialized and separate psychiatric institution.
Question 5.2.2
Out patient care: the provision of care to persons with intellectual disability outside of a
hospital setting.
• Primary health services: the first level of care and the initial point of contact that
a patient has with the health system. Often, primary health care begins with the
family physician or community health nurse. Primary health care is meant to be
the first step in obtaining care, emphasizing health promotion and illness
prevention, and providing a link to more specialized care, such as that provided
in hospitals.
• Specialized health services: Provision of mainstream specialized health
services such as angioplasty procedures, dialysis, surgery, trauma services,
mental health, cancer treatment, dental care, and speech therapy (etc.) to
persons with intellectual disability.
• Screening/Assessment/Orientation: Services designed to briefly assess the
condition of persons with intellectual disability to advice about which services are
needed and to link him/her to the most appropriate. Services may include
interviews, psychological testing, physical examinations including
speech/hearing, and laboratory studies.
• Early intervention: Services to children and their families for the purpose of
lessening the effects of the intellectual disability condition. Early intervention may
begin at any time between birth and school age.
• Individual support / Case management: Process of follow up individually to
persons with intellectual disabilities, including assessment, service planning and
review or process for co-ordinating services and inputs from different agencies
and sectors around individual needs.
Question 5.2.3
Rehabilitation/ Day care: Services given to persons with intellectual disability in the
form of knowledge, skills and training to help them achieve their optimum level of social
and psychological functioning and development. These services can take the form of
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