Ireland’s mental hospitals: ... In Ballinasloe, for example, the town had a population of almost 5,600 in the early 1950s. Some 2,000 were patients in the mental hospital.

One popular explanation blames “deinstitutionalization”: the emptying of state psychiatric hospitals that began in the 1950s. When the hospitals were shut down, the story goes, patients were ...

US rates of death from heart disease have more than halved since the 1950s, in large part thanks to drugs that lower cholesterol and act against hypertension. Therapies for serious mental ...

Mental hospitals and psych wards provide specialized care for individuals with severe mental health issues, offering treatment, support, and a safe environment.

Among homeless, a small minority of the severely mentally ill could be best served in public mental health hospitals that offer more intensive care.

At its peak in the 1950s, says TAC, more than 550,000 patients were in mental hospitals. Now, the number is down to around 35,000.

Md. Mental Hospitals in Dire Straits. Private Facility Operators Say They Face Shutdowns Without More State Aid. March 20, 2001. By Matthew Mosk. and ... The hospitals, ...

Back in the 1950s, America locked up too many people in psychiatric hospitals with shocking and deplorable conditions. We tried to correct for that, with an eye toward providing services in the ...

Momentum picked up in the 1950s and ’60s as new drugs were released to treat mental illness and figures such as French philosopher Michel Foucault and novelist Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over ...

Private Mental Hospitals In Dire Financial Straits. Operators Fear Closings Without More Md. Aid. March 20, 2001. By Matthew Mosk. and ...