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Towards a clearer understanding of the meaning of "home"
- Author:
- ANNISON John E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 25(4), December 2000, pp.251-262.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The term "home" has been liberally (mis)applied to a wide range of residential service settings for people with an intellectual disability over many years. This paper attempts to restore the term's descriptive value by identifying the meaning of home through reference to the intellectual disability and mainstream professional literature. From this literature review the main attributes of home have been identified revealing that home is a multi-faceted concept with no single contributing attribute making a place a home but conversely, the absence of any one potentially rendering a home a "non-home".