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Primary planning
- Author:
- THORNTON Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.3.94, 1994, pp.65-66.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues the case for improving nurse education to help meet the health-care needs of people with learning disabilities living in the community
Understanding and learning from a 'failure' in community care
- Authors:
- WATSON Jeff, ARCHER Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.272-277.
In an uncontrolled qualitative single-case study, several core themes of deinstitutionalization are explored in depth. The transition from hospital to group residential home is tracked for one older woman, with a focus on some of the barriers to effective relocation. Several unresolved questions remained, including the extent to which individual and group need are met in a single setting with limited resources. Some of the limitations of this research method are identified and explored.
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.
Responding to needs
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.6.94, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The sexual abuse of people with learning difficulties has only recently been highlighted. Asks what if, on top of the disclosure, it comes to light that the abuse survivor has also been a perpetrator. Reports on the work of Respond, a voluntary organisation based in Wandsworth, which supports vulnerable people with learning difficulties.
Canadian specific
- Author:
- ROSE Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.3.94, 1994, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite changes to encourage self advocacy and user involvement in services most disabled people remain the passive recipients of services which have been assessed by others. Explains how, in Canada, service brokerage and individualised funding has given people with learning difficulties control over their situation, enabling them to satisfy their needs as they see fit.
No specialists needed?
- Author:
- RICHARDSON Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.3.94, 1994, p.67.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Raises concern that privately run homes for people with learning disabilities living in the community sometimes neglect nursing interventions and skills.
I want to be a good parent: book one; what's it like to be a parent?
- Author:
- MCGAW Sue
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 16p.,illus.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Illustrated booklet aimed at parents with learning difficulties.
Autism: the invisible disability; the implications of current legislation for meeting the needs of children with autism
- Author:
- NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- National Autistic Society
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Services for people with learning difficulties - balancing the interests of users, their families and service providers
- Authors:
- WALKER Carol, WALKER Alan, RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 1 1994, 1994, pp.10-19.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Looks at the findings of research funded by the North Western Regional Health Authority, which examines the quality of life of 102 people with learning difficulties who moved out of three large long-stay mental handicap hospitals into shared housing in the community. The article focuses on the issues that arise when conducting research with people with learning difficulties and their close family.
A practice and policy agenda for HIV and learning difficulties
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(4), December 1994, pp.134-139.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reviews how issues around HIV and learning difficulties come together to present a challenge for health promotion/HIV prevention and services for people with learning difficulties. The review also identifies key practice issues which services for people with learning difficulties need to address in relation to HIV and offers a model for developing policy and resources for carrying forward work in this area.