It is an alternative to institutionalizing the elderly and the disabled, and saves the state hundreds of millions of dollars, while enabling program recipients to receive personalized care from IHSS workers – most often family members – who assist them with hygiene issues, meals, house-cleaning, transportation and medical care.
Family support decreases as years go by, and a negative first experience with caregiving can mean that the same person will not want to do it again and may prematurely choose the alternative of institutionalizing a dependent family member.
UNICEF aims to support more initiatives by the government and non-governmental organizations to develop alternatives to institutionalizing children.
It is part of a broader, community-based initiative to develop alternatives to institutionalizing children – an effort both to boost learning and to protect them from abuse – through a strategy based on inclusion instead of isolation.
In addition, by launching a major report last October on the situation of children with disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS), UNICEF helped its government counterparts raise public awareness about the need for alternatives to institutionalizing children.
The shaman, the wise woman and similar figures all represent institutionalized outlets for alternative points of view.
The ideal samurai was supposed to be a stoic warrior who followed an unwritten code of conduct, later formalized as Bushidō, which held bravery, honour, and personal loyalty above life itself; ritual suicide by disembowelment (seppuku) was institutionalized as a respected alternative to dishonour or defeat.
- Constraints in institutionalizing continuous improvement.
He needs involuntary institutionalizing.
Rather, we are calling for a new conversation about alternative approaches that "institutionalize" all dimensions of recovery.
