deinstitutionalization

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1. 1The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm.
2. 2(health care, psychiatry) The process of converting daily care for intellectually disabled people and mental health care for psychiatric patients from an institution-based model (focused largely on sequestering them in mental hospitals) to a community-based model (in which they live in small group homes or private residences to the greatest feasible extent).
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