Institutions remain dumping grounds for forgotten people
Yana Tavanier
(Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, Bulgaria)
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Abstract
Reform is coming too slowly to institutions for adults with intellectual and mental health disabilities in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia, where chronic neglect, filthy conditions, and the use of physical restraints and high‐dosage drugs to control behaviour remain routine.
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Citation
Tavanier, Y. (2010), "Institutions remain dumping grounds for forgotten people", Tizard Learning Disability Review, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 4-14. https://doi.org/10.5042/tldr.2010.0164
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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