RISP Infographics
Where do people who get supports live?
Bar chart showing where people with IDD who received supports lived in 2021. Sixty-two percent lived in family homes. Ten percent lived in their own homes. Five percent lived in host or foster family homes. Fifteen percent lived in group settings of one to six people. Eight percent lived in institutions of seven or more people including IDD facilities, nursing homes, and psychiatric facilities.
The graphic also describes each type of living arrangement. Family home is a home in which the person getting supports lives with one or more family members; Own home is a home owned or rented by one or more adults with IDD who gets funded support; A host or foster family home is a home owned or rented by an individual or family who provide supportive services to one or more people with IDD, a group home is a residence shared by six or fewer people with IDD that is owned, rented or managed by the organization or agency that provides support to people living in the home; an institution is a residence shared by seven or more people who get support that is owned, rented or managed by an organization or agency that provides paid support to the people in the residence.
In 2021, 872,422 people with IDD received long-term supports and services while living with a family member while 542,069 people with IDD received LTSS in other settings. Of the LTSS recipients,
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Cite as: Residential Information Systems Project (year). [Page Name]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, RISP, Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration. Retrieved from: https://risp.umn.edu.)