SECTION 2. The results of NMP operation in Ukraine 127 2.9. MONITORING OF INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL POLICY OF UKRAINE: RESULTS The network of permanent residence institutions for the elderly, people with disabilities and disabled children as of January 1, 2012 consisted of 324 boarding homes where the state fully provided for nearly 56 thousand persons belonging to mentioned groups: – 74 homes for the elderly and disabled, holding 8,846 individuals; – 38 geriatric and veterans’ boarding homes, holding 7,519 individuals; – 152 neuropsychiatric boarding homes s, with 30,731 resident patients; – 5 special boarding homes, providing for 642 persons; – 55 childcare boarding homes, with 6,888 children. The alternative form of social care for the elderly, disabled and ailing is their servicing via the territorial centers of social services (further referred to as TCs) that operate 348 in-patient units for permanent or temporary residence and fully provided, at public expense, for 7.7 thousand individuals. The social security institutions under monitoring also include 58 children’s asylums (that in 2012 accommodated 4.6 thousand minors) and 58 children’s centers of social and psychological rehabilitation (3.1 thousand minors). Unlike other institutions, the number of children’s asylums and rehab centers drastically changed over the last five years (see Drawing 6.1) as a result of restructuring of asylums into rehab facilities. This process will last through 2016. In 2012 NPM Department personnel visited 25 institutions of the social security system: Svyatoshynsky neuropsychiatric boarding home (Kyiv); Novo-Bilychi neuropsychiatric boarding home (Kyiv); Pushcha-Vodytsya neuropsychiatric boarding home (Kyiv); Zyankivtsi neuropsychiatric boarding home (Khmelnytsky Region); Skala-Podilska neuropsychiatric boarding home (Ternopil Region); Terebovlya neuropsychiatric boarding home (Ternopil Region); Sozan neuropsychiatric boarding home (Lviv Region);