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Shared care in Sheffield
- Author:
- MILLER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.12.01, 2001, p.42.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a support scheme in Sheffield for family carers over the age of 70, who care for a person with learning difficulties. The scheme won the carers category at this year's Community Care awards.
Training carers in physical interventions: research towards evidence-based practice
- Author:
- ALLEN David
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 66p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Provides trainers, purchasers and providers with practical, evidence based information on: alerting purchasers and providers to the types of outcomes they can expect from behaviour management training for carers; and helping trainers evaluate their training, with sample measures of direct training outcomes. The report also summarises current knowledge on training outcomes, based on a review of existing literature and identifies areas for future research.
Telesafe 2: a video resource pack on safety: for use with people with learning difficulties and their carers
- Authors:
- VALUES INTO ACTION, TELESAFE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Values into Action; Telesafe Association
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- Videocassette, booklet
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
This is a video that helps with the bogus callers issue. Telesafe 2 is video resource pack on safety produced by The Telesafe Association and Values Into Action. This gave people the opportunity to talk about ID cards, door chains and keeping safe when somebody you don't know knocks at your door. The video also covered harassment on the street and on buses.
Family homes: using parental property to provide future housing for people with learning disabilities: guidance for families and advisors
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 85p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report culminates from a project which explored how the family home, whether owned or rented, could be used to provide secure accommodation for the person with learning disabilities in the future. It was undertaken as part of the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities' Growing Older with Learning Disabilities (GOLD) programme.
Clinical guidelines and integrated care pathways for the oral health care of people with learning disabilities 2001
- Authors:
- THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. Faculty of Dental Surgery, et al
- Publisher:
- The Royal College of Surgeons of England. Faculty of Dental Surgery
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Evidence confirms that people with learning disabilities’ uptake of screening services is lower and that they have poor oral health when compared to the general population. Good oral health is linked to good general health and a number of systemic diseases have oral manifestations. Improvements in oral health care can be obtained by encouraging carers to regularly examine the mouth of the person they are caring for. Completing an oral assessment will help to identify any changes in the mouth. This can aid diagnosis and treatment if reported to the dentist at an early stage. vThe guidelines are based on published evidence and follow the format of other clinical guidelines developed by the Faculty of Dental Surgery The Royal College of Surgeons of England and those from the British Society of Disability and Oral Health. Information was gathered from consultation groups of people with mild to moderate learning disabilities. Postal questionnaires were also used.
An evaluation of the Mencap family adviser service in northern Ireland
- Authors:
- MCKEOWN Paschal, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 7(4), December 2001, pp.273-287.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Mencap (NI) provides and largely funds an 'information and Advice Service' aimed primarily at family carers and people with learning disabilities. This article describes the service and the evaluation process used. Information was obtained from four stakeholder groups, namely service-users; service-funders; the leaders of learning disability teams in Health and Social Services (HSS) Trusts and the chair persons of Mencap local societies. The feature of a good information and advice service are noted, along with the developments required to the existing service, In the main these relate to improved partnership working with statutory agencies and increasing the profile of the service with services, family carers and people with learning disabilities.
Views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their families: (2) the family perspective
- Authors:
- GRANT Gordon, RAMCHARAN Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(4), 2001, pp.364-380.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines findings from research into the views and experiences of families of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). It draws from the authors' report on the views and experiences of users and carers, the DoH Research Initiative on Learning Disability: Proposal for a Research Review on the Views and Experiences of Users and Carers, which was commissioned by the Department of Health, and was intended to inform some of the thinking behind Valuing People and the associated research programme. This article traces the development and scope of research on family carers in relation to the personal and psychological experience of care as well as in relation to receipt of services. Theoretical and methodological gaps in the literature are outlined. Social systems theory is proposed as a means of addressing the requirements of a future research agenda about family care.
Views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their families: (1) the user perspective
- Authors:
- RAMCHARAN Paul, GRANT Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(4), 2001, pp.348-363.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents a descriptive summary of the views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) as they have been represented in research and other literature. The authors develop further the DoH Research Initiative on Learning Disability: Proposal for a Research Review on the Views and Experiences of Users and Carers, a review report commissioned by the Department of Health on the views and experiences of users and family carers focusing on the ways in which research might contribute to policy and practice. The literature review of user views and experiences produced three broad categories: testaments of life, which are mainly ethnographies and life histories; user movement media produced in an accessible format for people with IDs or by people with IDs themselves; and research based studies in their varying forms. It is demonstrated that no single approach is able to encompass all the interests of knowledge production, policy planning, and action or practice on its own. A more coordinated and broad-based research approach to user views and experiences is advocated.
Futures planning for people with learning disabilities living with older family carers
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(2), April 2001, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
People with learning disabilities are increasingly outliving their parents. To avoid traumatic and inappropriate transitions from the family home in later life, services need to improve their relationships with families. Provides practical examples of how families are being supported to face the future.
Asian community groups campaign for equal rights
- Author:
- McINTYRE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 56, March 2001, p.3.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Looks at the work of the Asian Disability Network who are campaigning for the rights of people with learning difficulties and their carers.