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Staffed housing for adults with severe or profound mental handicaps: the Andover project: summary report of a DHSS funded research project
- Author:
- FELCE David
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 56p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
The Andover Project grew out of the Wessex experiment, initiated in the 1960s, which aimed to provide residential services for people with severe or profound mental handicap in town locations near to their family homes.
Quality of life for people with learning disabilities in supported housing in the community: a review of research
- Author:
- FELCE David
- Publisher:
- University of Exeter. Centre for Evidence Based Social Services, University of E
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
The research brought together here, including summaries of other specialist reviews, and the author's own work, provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to the field of supported housing in the community for learning-disabled people. It is relevant to planning and review processes within and beyond the CEBSS project. Includes sections on: physical wellbeing; material wellbeing; social wellbeing; productive wellbeing; emotional wellbeing; civic wellbeing; and user statistician.
Community housing costs
- Author:
- FELCE David
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(1), January 1996, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Small-scale community residential services are often held to be costly. However, such a simple assertion obscures a greater complexity which underlies the relationship between the nature of services, their resource requirements and their quality outcome. The article asserts that there are some economies of scale to be found but not as strong as popular belief would hold.
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.
Staff activity in supported housing services
- Authors:
- FELCE David, LOWE Kathy, JONES Edwin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(4), December 2002, pp.388-403.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Variation in staff performance between small community housing services indicates the need for research on the factors which predict high-quality care. The associations between service sector, staffing levels, staff characteristics, internal organization or working practices, non-institutional milieu, and staff activity and the nature and extent of staff attention to residents were explored in a study of 10 statutory, 10 voluntary and nine private sector community housing schemes. There were few significant differences between sectors after differences in resident abilities were taken into account. Higher staff to resident ratios predicted greater resident receipt of attention and assistance but also a lower proportion of time during which each member of staff was directly concerned with residents. A greater range in resident ability predicted lower resident receipt of attention and assistance. A higher proportion of qualified staff was not shown to be a positive attribute but greater prior experience was associated with staff spending more time directly concerned with residents, less time doing 'other' activity and residents receiving more assistance. Measures of the internal organization and non-institutional milieu of the settings were not strongly related to staff activity.
Outcomes of ordinary housing services in Wales: objective indicators
- Authors:
- PERRY Jonathan, FELCE David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 7(4), 1995, pp.286-311.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Outcome data were collected on fourteen, recently provided staffed houses for people with mild, moderate, severe or profound learning disabilities in order to assess the quality of service provided. Quality indicators reflected the quality of the housing provision, social and community integration, social relationships within the houses, resident engagement in activity, developmental progress over time and opportunities for autonomy and choice. The data show that the quality of the houses investigated was broadly similar to that reported for other housing services in British research which has accompanied deinstitutionalisation. Quality levels on many indicators were related to the ability of residents and the data illustrate the difficulty in providing services for people with more severe or profound learning difficulties, which are capable of achieving outcomes comparable with those attained in services for more able residents. The research provides further evidence that the extent of staff support for resident activity is critical to how much residents are able to participate fully in the everyday activities which arise in the conduct of their lives.
Association between the provision characteristics and operation of supported housing services and resident outcomes
- Authors:
- FELCE David, LOWE Kathy, JONES Edwin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(4), December 2002, pp.404-418.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Variation in outcome between community housing services indicates the need for research on the factors that predict quality of life. The associations between service sector, staffing levels, staff characteristics, internal organization, non-institutional milieu, staff activity, the nature and extent of staff attention to residents and a range of resident outcomes were explored in a study of 10 statutory, 10 voluntary and nine private sector community housing schemes. There were no significant differences between sectors after differences in resident abilities were taken into account. Smaller residence size was associated with lower resident engagement in activity, and did not predict social or community integration. Higher staff to resident ratios predicted lower resident participation in household tasks but a greater frequency of community activities. A higher proportion of qualified staff was not shown to be a positive attribute. Measures of the internal organization of the settings were not strongly related to outcome. Residents receiving more attention from staff predicted greater participation in domestic activities and residents receiving more assistance from staff predicted higher engagement in activity.