Definstitutionalization In The Community

Deinstitutionalization is permanently moving severely mentally ill people from mental hospitals into a community where they live on their own or family members. The most devastating result of this deinstitutionalization is that these mentally ill people are no longer monitored closely anymore. After leaving the hospitals and being on their own in the community they tend to what they want. They have refused to take their medications or some of them no longer have access to medication unlike in the hospitals where medications were provided everyday. They feel that they don’t need to take medication anymore. The problems with this is that they still need their medication on daily basis but no one to enforce this in the community. Lack of medication
is another major problem faced by mentally ill people. This is tied with lack of funds to buy the medication or visit the right doctors to get prescriptions. In the community no one to direct them through the right on how to acquire a health insurance that would enable them to visit doctors and buy the prescribe drugs. They also lack the right people to direct them on how to take drugs. This has led to drug abuse and misuse since they are not able to take the drugs without guidance.