Assessment Unit for the Mentally Retarded

a suitable unit staffed with a multidisciplinary team. When the assessment is completed, the patient can be properly placed back in his family or in day or residential care in the community or in hospital. Sometimes all of these placements can be utilized in the same case to provide proper care, training, treatment and rehabilitation of an individual patient, e.g. the patient lives with his family, attends the community day centre and, over the weekend and when the training centre is closed, becomes a day patient at the hospital. Wherever the patient is placed, regular re-assessment is essential, so that progress or relapse can be followed and to ensure that the patient is still properly placed and that all the necessary services are provided for him.