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Community services available to older adults with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- BUYS Laurie, RUSHWORTH Jennifer S.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 22(1), March 1997, pp.29-37.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
As older adults with intellectual disabilities live longer and reside in community-based accommodation, the availability of support programmes and services becomes important to the maintenance of independent living. One hundred and sixty-two community-based organisations in Brisbane, Australia, that assist older adults or people with intellectual disabilities were surveyed regarding the types of programmes offered to older adults with intellectual disabilities. Reports on the services provided by these agencies.
Self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties: does it have a future
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(4), September 1997, pp.647-654.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses self-advocacy for people learning difficulties and presents a self-advocacy framework model which includes all the elements needed to advocate and achieve permanent change.
Next steps in developing services for people with learning disabilities in Greater Glasgow
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 67, December 1997, pp.15-17.
Provides extracts from a consultation paper on the future development of services for people with learning disabilities issued by Greater Glasgow Health Board.
Direct payments are not a mystery
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 4(1), September 1997, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Discusses how some authorities are regarding the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act as if it is introducing a totally alien concept. The author calls on local authorities to make use of the experience gained and to give people with learning difficulties the assistance they need in making their views and wishes known over direct payments.
Later life for adults with intellectual disability: a time of opportunity and vulnerability
- Author:
- BIGBY Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 22(2), June 1997, pp.97-108.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Old age is often regarded as a time of reduced functional capacities, decreasing community participation and narrowing horizons. Such views are sometimes reflected in the nature of programmes and services, and the more limited expectations that service providers hold about people. This article reports on the findings of a qualitative study of the later life experiences of older people (over 55 years) with intellectual disability. Conclusions are drawn about the ways in which later life opportunities can be safeguarded and vulnerabilities reduced through the development of appropriate policies and services for older people with intellectual disability.
Your move: stories from the your move project
- Authors:
- SMITH Andy, WILSON Helen
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 80p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This book is about what happened in the first year of the Your Move Project, a developmental project aiming to extend the range of quality housing and living options for people with learning disabilities in Scotland, to raise awareness about supported living, and to develop several small demonstration projects to help people move into their own homes
M.A.P.: more access please; the right track
- Authors:
- ORPWOOD Jenny, DAVIS Clare
- Publisher:
- Change
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- London
Information pack written for people with learning difficulties and those who work with them. Includes sections on: general information (including the Disability Discrimination Act, training, advocacy, communication, independent living, travel and transport, benefits, and making meetings accessible); deaf issues (including deaf culture, hearing difficulties, hearing tests, hearing aids, talking to deaf people; sympathetic hearing scheme; loop systems, alarms, communication, sign language interpreters, relay interpreters, using telephones, hearing dogs for deaf people, and subtitles); blind issues (including sight tests, tips when meeting a blind person, communication, reading, writing and listening, environment, white canes, and guide dogs); and information about deaf blind issues.
Ageing matters: pathways for older people with a learning disability; unit two; providing effective day-to day support
- Authors:
- HARRIS John, BENNETT Lucille, HOGG James
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Unit two of a series of training materials for staff working with older people with learning difficulties. This unit has sections on: promoting psychological independence and emotional wellbeing; promoting physical independence and wellbeing; and supporting people through change. Concludes with a summary of points for practice.
Money matters: helping people with learning difficulties have more control over their money
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 121p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Relates the experiences of people with learning difficulties in relation to handling their own money and relates these to current legal and technical frameworks. Makes recommendations for major changes in legal practice and benefits regulations, and in the practice of services, families and people themselves.
Yes! she knows she's here
- Author:
- SCHAEFER Nicola
- Publisher:
- Inclusion Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 154p.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Through this book readers are treated to the work that Catherine, her friends and family have accomplished in buying an ordinary home and setting up a supportive household. In the late '90's, living in one's own home is still controversial in the world of disability, particularly for an individual who doesn't speak in words and who participates with 24 hour per day support from others. Catherine has now been on this path for more than eleven years. In 1986, days before her 25th birthday, Catherine moved from her parents’ into her own home. It was an exciting, somewhat anxious time, the culmination of two years of planning and hard work on the part of many people. Everyone was eager to help Cath create a home for herself where she would have both the necessary paid, live-in support and the freely given friendship and help of others living in the two upstairs apartments. This book celebrates Cath’s 35th birthday and the 10th anniversary of her move.