Deinstitutionalisation
Some of the current homeless population in Australia were previously mentally institutionalised. Mass deinstitutionalisation of the mentally ill began in Australia during the 1980s, whereby people with a mental illness live in the general community under the policy of community release. The mentally ill are no longer supervised by health care workers, and are left to their own devices in regard to maintaining their personal medication regimens.
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