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Close to home: a local housing service and its impact on the lives of nine adults with severe and profound mental handicaps
- Authors:
- FELCE David, TOOGOOD Sandy
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 191p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Discusses the experiences of nine people who moved from institutional care to a community based house. Looks at managing difficult behaviour, improving the quality of life, and helping individuals to adapt to a normal life in the community.
The move from Barford House: an account of a residential service before and after a move to ordinary housing
- Author:
- COMMUNITY AND MENTAL HANDICAP EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Community and Mental Handicap Educational and Research Association
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A combined account of two evaluations, using PASS, of a residential service for children and young people with mental handicaps before and after the service moved from a single site into seven dispersed ordinary houses.
What shall we tell the neighbours?
- Author:
- LEYIN A.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 16(1), 1988, pp.11-15.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Discusses strategies for consulting the local community when planning small housing projects.
Living with mental handicap: transitions in the lives of people with mental handicap
- Authors:
- HOROBIN Gordon, MAY David
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 165p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews recent research and understanding of life-stages for the mentally handicapped - home-hospital-community, childhood-old age - and implications for future policy and practice.
Housing consortia for community care
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- National Federation of Housing Associations
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 27p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the housing consortium model, and Newham Special Needs Housing Consortium.
Public issues, private pain: poverty, social work and social policy
- Editors:
- BECKER Saul, MacPHERSON Stewart
- Publisher:
- Social Services Insight
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 380p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London