Institutions do not and cannot work in the field of care and support for citizens who need assistance. As a society, we painfully learned this lesson about institutional care through the experience of Indigenous youth in residential schools, children in orphanages, people with mental-heath difficulties in asylums, children in “homes” for special care, people who have a developmental disability in the large congregate care facilities scattered around Ontario. We learned that institutions and good care and support are incompatible. The last two groups in society to experience institutional life are our seniors and prisoners. Stop using the institutional model and develop alternatives.

Source: thestar October 11, 2020 04:07 UTC