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Trying together
- Author:
- HAYES Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.12.94, 1994, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how family and friends can make all the difference for people with learning difficulties when they are moving into the community from long-stay hospital.
Into the community: a comparison of care management and traditional approaches to resettlement
- Authors:
- HIGGINS Ray, RICHARDSON Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 28(3), September 1994, pp.221-235.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The resettlement of people with learning disabilities from long-stay hospitals has been under way for a number of years in England. This process has generally been dominated by the exigencies of the available services. A needs-led approach, emphasized in recent community care legislation, in which new services are sought on the basis of the specific requirements of services users, has been used infrequently for this purpose. Compares the process of implementing a needs-led care management approach to resettlement with the implementation of a more traditional service-led approach. It also suggests some important lessons for the application of a needs-led approach to hospital resettlement.
Living in the community after leaving long-stay hospital: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Long-term hospital and institutional care for people with learning difficulties are rapidly being phased out in favour of living in the community. A study of people with learning difficulties who had left long-stay hospital residence five years earlier found that significantly better outcomes and opportunities had been achieved in the community at the expense of a modest increase in costs.
Special needs housing: flexible friends
- Author:
- SUNMONU Yinka
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.11.94, 1994, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the housing association Advance, based in Oxford, which uses befrienders to help people cope with moving from long-stay hospitals into the community.
Investing in people
- Authors:
- EZELLE Lesley Anne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 16.2.94, 1994, pp.26-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The closure of long-stay hospitals for people with learning disabilities and with mental illness have been severely disruptive for those living and working with them - looks at the stress on staff during the transition.
Opening new doors: an evaluation of community care for people discharged from psychiatric and mental handicap hospitals
- Authors:
- DONNELLY Michael, et al
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 437p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Study evaluating community care services for people with learning difficulties or mental health problems discharged from long-stay hospitals in Northern Ireland. Looks at implementation and the efficiency and effectiveness of the implementation process and evaluates the arrangements in terms of their impact on the quality of life of the users.