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Group homes: an ordinary life?
- Author:
- KINSELLA Peter
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Argues for improvements in small scale group homes and supported living for people with learning difficulties and in particular for greater integration and participation in the wider community.
Home rules
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, KINSELLA Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.8.93, 1993, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
In the U.K. group housing for people with learning difficulties can still have institutional regimes and be far from home for the residents. In the U.S.A. there have been moves in recent years towards support living - individually-organised packages for individuals in their own homes. Options in Community Living in Madison, Wisconsin is one such scheme, which has been in operation for the last ten years. Learning from experiences in the U.S.A., the National Development Team is to establish a Supported Living Initiative in the U.K., hoping to take over where the 'Ordinary Life' movement left off.
Supporting roles
- Authors:
- KINSELLA Peter, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A shadow has been cast over group homes for people with learning difficulties. Research on the schemes revealed that many residents in the homes do not really choose where they are going to live, with whom, their support staff, their routines or their expenditure. As the major residential alternative to hospitals and hostels for people with learning difficulties the life style offered is still often powerless and controlled. In the United States there has been a strong movement towards Supported living, where many people receive a mixture of paid and informal supports which are individually planned and arranged around them; and in the UK the National Development Team for people with learning difficulties is just launching its Supported Living Initiative. Looks at the future in supported living.