Outpatient rate
In social pedagogy, the outpatient rate is used to describe the proportion of disabled people who make use of the services of assisted outpatient living , in contrast to those who live in inpatient facilities such as homes.
The outpatient rate is usually recorded separately for mentally, mentally and physically disabled people. While 70 percent of all mentally disabled people receive outpatient care, this is only the case for 30 percent of mentally and physically disabled people. There are sometimes considerable differences between the German federal states: while in Hamburg over 80 percent of all mentally disabled people are cared for on an outpatient basis, in Saxony-Anhalt 70 percent of all mentally disabled people have to live in homes.