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Many of the remaining residents of such places have lived there for decades, leaving their families with wrenching choices when closures loom.
Mike Lee's way of life has faded away in most of the United States, and it soon will vanish from southwestern Iowa.
Under federal pressure to improve care for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, Iowa is closing one of two centers doing that care.