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Moving home: costs associated with different models of accommodation for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MYLES S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 8(6), November 2000, pp.406-416.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper reports on variation in the cost and social outcomes of provision for clients with learning disabilities, resettled across different models of community accommodation; identifying personal and service-related characteristics influential on such variation. The study was conducted to inform the community reprovisioning strategy associated with the phased closure of the Gogarburn and Tornaveen learning disability hospitals in the Lothian region, Scotland. Total mean service costs, quality of life and community integration outcome data were collected and compared. Overall, there was an inverse relationship between total mean costs and size of accommodation. There was no evidence of a direct relationship between costs and changes in social outcomes. Services with the lowest mean costs were, however, associated with the smallest increases in social outcomes. The most expensive services did not realise proportionally greater gains in social outcomes. The paper concludes that clients generally benefited from the transition from hospital to community accommodation. However, some experienced better outcomes than others. In the absence of a clear link between levels and type of resource use and social outcomes, it is difficult to identify which service features are more or less efficacious in achieving positive outcomes. Broader evaluation perspectives, embracing a fuller range of costs and benefits, will be required to unpack exactly what it is about different models of community care provision that leads to positive outcomes, or otherwise, for learning disability clients. A more sound evidence base is required before effective strategies can be designed to ensure that key policy outcomes are realised and social integration truly achieved.
A fair hearing
- Author:
- HOLLINGSWORTH Nicole
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 28.12.00, 2000, pp.41-42.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Courtrooms can be frightening for people with a learning disability. Describes an initiative to provide them with support.
Twelve steps to learning
- Author:
- JACOBSEN Yola
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
People with learning difficulties have produced their own charter on education and learning.
Vocabulary needs in augmentative and alternative communication: a sample of conversational topics between staff providing services to adults with learning difficulties and their service users
- Author:
- GRAVES Judy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28(3), September 2000, pp.113-119.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper describes an attempt to gather information about vocabulary needs of a sample of people with learning difficulties in order to inform the content of local augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) resources and training programmes. The participants were staff members working in a range of local day care and residential services who were asked to record topics of conversation in diaries. The results of the present study suggest that physical needs and function were the most frequent topic areas for conversation. There were far fewer conversations recorded for social and emotional topics. Flexible topic-based frameworks for AAC programmes are suggested as a model that might be able to respond to individual and local vocabulary needs more readily than any one prescribed vocabulary.
Time to raise standards: part 2
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the review of services for learning difficulties in Scotland and finds some radical proposals that may mean services will look different to those south of the border.
No more obstacles to casting that vote
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reviews the Act, Representation of the Persons Act, which will make it easier for disabled people to vote.
Helping hands
- Author:
- BENJAMIN Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, July 2000, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
KeyRing operates mutual support networks for people with learning difficulties. The author reports on a network in Southwark.
Too much care not enough support
- Author:
- CONLON Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.00, 2000, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author challenges the notion of key working, and the misuse of the word "care".
Mind the gap
- Author:
- RABIEE Parvaneh
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.6.00, 2000, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As the government legislates on care leavers, this article draws attention to the plight of young people with learning difficulties who fall between services.
Research
- Authors:
- GILES Ann, CAMPBELL Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.5.00, 2000, p.35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors review research resources on the importance of key working and what people with learning difficulties think about the services they receive.