RISP Data Bytes: Most People in Large IDD Facilities Now Live in Settings Operated by Nonstate Providers

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Part of the RISP Data Bytes series.
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Sheryl A Larson, Jon Neidorf, Brian C Begin
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In 1967, almost 200,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) lived in large state institutions. Initially, those leaving state facilities moved to non-state ones. Starting in 1981, the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver helps them live with family or in small community homes. This Data Byte shows the decrease of individuals living in large state and non-state institutions between 1998 and 2019. Currently about 90,000 individuals live in large non-state institutions. States should reduce this number because research shows people in smaller homes are happier and have more control over their living situation.

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Date
2023 
Type
Brief 
Publisher
Residential Information Systems Project (RISP)

Topics

  • Housing and residential services
    • Institutions and deinstitutionalization
  • Specific disability
    • Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)