Table of Contents

I. Perspectives in the Closing of Mental Hospitals.- 1. Introduction and an Overview of the Closing Scene.- 2. Historical Factors Affecting the Closing of State Hospitals.- 3. The Case for Closing of the Hospitals.- 4. The Case Against Closing of State Hospitals.- 5. The Alternative Care Is Not There.- II. The Impact of the Closing.- 6. The Impact of the Closing of DeWitt State Hospital.- 7. When They Closed the Doors at Modesto.- 8. The Posttransfer Fate of Relocated Patients.- 9. Community-Based Sheltered Care.- III. Issues in Community Care and the Closing of Hospitals.- 10. Some Major Issues in the Closing of the Hospitals.- 11. Moving Patients Out of Hospitals-In Whose Interest?.- 12. Is the Community Ready?.- 13. Whither the State Hospital? Issues and Trends in Mental Health Services Delivery.