0 to send someone, especially someone who is not able to live independently, to live in an institution (= a place such as a hospital)
1 to make something become a permanent or respected part of a society, system, or organization:
2 to send someone to stay or live in an institution, esp. a hospital for people who are mentally ill:
Martin had to be institutionalized for several months during his last depression.
Issues in institutionalizing on-farm client-oriented research: a review of experiences from nine national agricultural research systems.
Persons having limitation in these more basic functions may already be institutionalized and, therefore, be excluded from our study population.
A final section on ' institutionalizing democracy ' turns out to revolve on a discussion only of parties and party systems.
Guidelines on managing water resources were derived from this major principle of the paradigm and institutionalized as policy.
Countries have prioritized and are institutionalizing traditional medicine in national health systems and are undertaking the rational scientific assessment of traditional herbal medicines.
The paralanguage of caregiving: baby talk to the institutionalized aged - the field study.
Indeed, some incontinence may be the result of staff and client expectations within institutionalized care.
They were often institutionalized, shunned by society and stigmatized.
