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Older people who use BSL: preferences for residential care provision in Wales |
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Manchester: University of Manchester, 2010. 59p. |
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The Welsh Assembly Government has begun to consider whether there is a case for the establishment of a specialist, Sign Language medium, residential care provision for deaf people in Wales. Currently there is no care home provision in Wales where British Sign Language (BSL) is used as a matter of course. All deaf older people in Wales are placed in care environments where BSL is not routinely used by staff and where they are often the only deaf resident. The study comprised: 4 community consultations involving 32 deaf people throughout Wales; 6 stakeholder interviews with representatives of relevant specialist service providing organisations in Wales; and 7 individual interviews with older deaf people. The findings are discussed under the following headings: high levels of concern about the current situation; communication and language as pre-eminent issues; failure to meet cultural needs; the whole older people’s care spectrum; arguments for specialist residential care; and barriers to specialist residential care provision. The report concludes that there is a clear need to change current practice. Meeting deaf people’s linguistic and cultural needs should be the starting point in making decisions about future care provision, and in judging the efficacy and appropriateness of this care. |
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care homes; communication; deafness; government policy; older people; residential care; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=284df91f-0b7c-4d12-9c68-ff546376dfb5 |
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