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Preparing for a positive future: meeting the age related needs of older people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WARD Cally
- Publisher:
- Association for Residential Care
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 211p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
Report from a development project, Positive Futures, looking at people with learning difficulties in the context of an ageing population and at what models of service and best practice should be developed as the needs of people with learning difficulties change as they grow older. Focuses on the challenges and opportunities for commissioners and purchasers, and service providers themselves, emphasising throughout the need to listen to users. Section four contains resources and information.
Consumer-directed goal planning in the delivery of assistive technology services for people who are ageing with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- MIRZA Mansha, HAMMEL Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 22(5), September 2009, pp.445-457.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
A consumer-directed service-delivery approach to assistive technology and environmental modification intervention in the US was examined with people who were ageing with intellectual disabilities. The intervention was based on a collaborative approach involving consumers, their social supports and service deliverers. Thirty individuals were randomly selected to receive the intervention from a sample of 75 community-dwelling adults. Outcomes related to consumers' and significant others' perceptions of performance and satisfaction with goal attainment were assessed and the consumer-directed goal planning process examined. Participants in the intervention group reported significantly higher levels of performance and satisfaction related to goals identified at baseline than participants in the control group. Two broad categories of goals were addressed during the intervention – basic self-care goals and participation/environmental/systems level goals. A 98% direct agreement rate between consumer-identified goals and goals addressed by service deliverers was found during the intervention. Of the environmental strategies employed during the intervention, assistive devices and systems level advocacy and action were the two most frequently used across goals.
Aging, rights and quality of life: prospects for older people with developmental disabilities
- Editors:
- HERR Stanley S., WEBER Germain
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 413p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Collection of papers on the rights of older people with learning difficulties in the United States. Contains sections on: human rights and legal considerations; quality of life and quality standards; service models and innovations; and future directions.