• Recent Prioritization of Urgency Needs for Services (PUNS) data shows there are 1,863 people over 60 caring for a family member with a developmental disability.
• Approximately 28,000 persons with mental illness reside in nursing homes or an institutional setting.
• In 2005, 21% of Illinois nursing home residents with disabilities indicated a preference to return to the community.
• The Supreme Court, in the Olmstead decision, requires states to have a working plan that provides persons with disabilities options to choose to live in the most integrated setting appropriate to the individual.
