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Direct payment blues
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author laments the confusion over consent at the heart of the direct payments system for people with learning difficulties.
The Choice Questionnaire: a scale to assess choices exercised by adults with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- STANCLIFFE Roger J., PARMENTER Trevor R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(2), June 1999, pp.107-132.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article presents information on the development and evaluation of the Choice Questionnaire. The scale can be administered by interviewing the consumer or may be completed by a knowledgeable proxy. Used in either of these ways, the Choice Questionnaire was found to have very satisfactory reliability and validity. Its use as a research and evaluation tool is discussed.
Choice, dementia and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Like the rest of the population, people with learning difficulties are living longer and are also increasingly joining the growing numbers of people who have dementia. This trend throws up a range of issues for policy-makers and practitioners. Little attention has been paid to how choice and empowerment, fundamental to the community care reforms, can be made meaningful for individuals with learning difficulties and dementia. This research examined how far 20 people with these dual impairments, living in a range of settings, were involved in making choices and decisions about their own lives, and identified what facilitated or hindered that process.
Helping people with a learning disability explore choice
- Authors:
- JACKSON Eve, JACKSON Neil
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people with learning difficulties and their carers and designed to aid the improvement of social skills. Comprises a series of short stories focusing on different areas of decision making.
Time to decide
- Author:
- LETTS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.118-119.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article provides a summary and critique of the government's proposals for a new mental incapacity law. These proposals are for the establishment of laws on decision-making for individuals who lack mental capacity. This report argues that there are several important gaps left unfilled, in particular, measures to protect vulnerable adults.
Implementing direct payments for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 gave local authorities the power to make cash payments to community care users for the purchase of their own support. Development of direct payments has been slow, particularly for people with learning difficulties. Describes a study which looked in detail at the legal aspects of making cash payments to people with learning difficulties and examined some of the implications for practice, using case studies, in three local authorities.
Learning support for people with learning disabilities in community residential projects
- Author:
- DAVIES Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(9), May 1999, pp.303-307.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Community care should in theory result in greater independence and autonomy for people with learning disabilities. Traditionally, work with people with learning disabilities has been dominated by the behaviourist approach. The author reports the findings of a qualitative study of residential care projects which suggest that such approaches to learning may in fact constrain potential for independent living.
Consultation: plan of action or management exercise?
- Authors:
- TOWNSON Louise, CHAPMAN Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Consultation is one of the 'four Cs' of the government's Best Value initiative. The authors argue that consultation in its own right is not enough, and that people should be involved on committees right through to the top if a real change is to take place.
The dangers of a normal life
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.3.99, 1999, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks what do you do when a service user with learning difficulties and mental illness wants to return to normal life but, when she is given her wish, her life breaks down into dangerous behaviour.
For better or worse
- Author:
- BRAMMER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(1), January 1999, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Assesses the House of Lords decision on the Bournewood case concerning the informal detention of a person unable to give a valid consent to such detention. Goes on to consider the recommendation of the Independent Long-care Inquiry, which build on the recommendations of the Burgner Report and are specifically directed towards people with learning disabilities.