In a recent message to supporters, former President Donald Trump declared that, if he were again elected to the White House, he would “use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Jennifer Senior spoke about the mistreatment of family members with developmental disabilities at a community event at the Nathaniel T. Allen House in West Newton on ...

The President of the United States recently suggested we bring back institutions to house the mentally ill to help solve the country’s gun-violence epidemic. I beg to differ. Instead, I support the ...

Confirming many elderly patients' worst fears, a national study has shown that being hospitalized for an acute event, such as a stroke or hip fracture, can lead to long-term institutionalization in a ...

Those in emergency management and public safety try to include vulnerable populations in pre-disaster planning to account for their needs and keep them safe during emergencies, including people with ...

Intervention without human rights goes by many names — involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms. The ...

Researchers report developmental effects of early-childhood institutionalization and foster care placement. Children who spend their early lives in institutions characterized by low caregiver ...

This article draws on ethnographic data from a field leading university licensing office to document and explain a key step in the process of institutionalization, the abstraction of standardized ...