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Hearing older voices
- Author:
- SOUTHGATE Jaki
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 126, January 2012, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Older Voices, is a three year project funded by Comic Relief that is working with 17 people with a learning disability over the age of 50. The project is running a series of workshops to make the older people aware of their rights to services and give them the confidence and skills to change things, such as discrimination. This article provides a brief overview of the project which is being run by Mencap Wales.
Self-styled success
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, DAVIS Rowenna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.04.08, 2008, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Putting People First made clear that self-directed support is to become mainstream In this article, the first author describes what self-directed care entails. The second author then describes the work of four teams given awards for innovative and impressive practice in Community Care's Excellence programme.
Need 2 know: mutual caring: supporting mutual caring amongst families that include a person with learning disabilities
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A number of people with learning disabilities are providing regular and substantial care for their ageing relatives. In many cases, neither person would be able to remain living independently without this support. This is known as mutual caring. This briefing note sets out the main findings of a project which conducted in-depth studies with older families that include a person with learning disabilities. The aims of the project included directly supporting the development and promotion of good practice in supporting older families to plan for the future where a person with learning disabilities is providing regular and substantial care to an elderly relative. This briefing note sets out some of the main finding of the project. In particular, it lists guidance and strategies to commissioners and care managers on how to develop an effective service response to these families. A conclusion of the project is that the incidence of mutual caring is growing, but its true extent is not known. Mutual care is often not recognised, and responsibility for these families can often fall between older people’s services, learning disability services and carers’ services.
Pennine Court: remodelling sheltered housing to include extra care for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- LATTO Shena, CROOKES Victoria
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Case Study describes the development of extra care housing opportunities for older people with learning difficulties within a conventional sheltered housing scheme in Salford. It details the key stages and features of the development process, and shares the lessons learned from this in the hope that they will be useful to other commissioners and providers of housing and support services considering/involved in: remodelling sheltered housing; developing extra care for people with learning difficulties; integrating provision for people with learning difficulties with mainstream provision for people as they age.
A burden shared
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.10.06, 2006, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As people with learning difficulties live longer, their carers become correspondingly older. This article looks at a council project in south London which is helping meet the needs of older carers.
Home of choice
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.05.05, 2005, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Provides an overview of ChoicE, a one-stop scheme run by a Citizens Advice team in Manchester which is helping older people, vulnerable people and their relatives find the right care home.
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LGBTQI+ video stories
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource presents five accounts of LGBTQI+ people and their care and support experiences. The stories focus on people with physical disabilities; people with mental health needs; people with learning disabilities; partners in adoption services; and older people and residential care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Co-producing technology: harnessing digital solutions for social care
- Authors:
- VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DISABILITY GROUP, NATIONAL CARE FORUM
- Publisher:
- Voluntary Organisations Disability Group
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper explores ways in which people who use services can contribute to the design of successful digital solutions and how these solutions are changing the way that social care and health services are being delivered. The paper provides examples good practice covering three perspectives. The locality perspective shows how Leeds is using technology to support the health and wellbeing of older and disabled people. Through a “smart city” approach it is looking at how to use data to deliver a more coordinated approach to health and social care. The integration perspective describes how technology is being used in the vanguard sites to support the integration health and social care in the vanguard sites. The practitioner perspective describes how Camphill Village Trust have invested in their own app to support people with learning disabilities to develop the skills and confidence to use social media safely. The report identifies key messages from the examples that can help to help maximise the benefits of technology. These include: the importance of user engagement and co-production; leadership that promotes co-production and champions technology; and the need to consider the benefits of digital technology for older and disabled people, who often have the most to gain from the technology. (Edited publisher abstract)
An effective program design to support older workers with intellectual disability to participate individually in community groups
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(2), 2014, pp.117-127.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The foreshadowed increase of older people with intellectual disability has become a reality in many developed countries. As these adults age, improved quality of life can be achieved through applications of conjoint policy aims of inclusion and participation. A transition-to-retirement (TTR) programme developed for employees of a large multisite disability employment service in Sydney, Australia, used these aims to effect successful partial retirement. The authors describe the program logic of the TTR, detailing its conceptual components as the first step to enabling it to be tested and replicated in other settings. The TTR programme has three components: promoting the concept of retirement, laying the groundwork for inclusion of would-be retirees with intellectual disability in the community, and constructing the reality. The third component comprised five stages: planning, locating a group, mapping new routine, recruiting and training mentors, and monitoring and ongoing support. The project's participants were 24 older employees, who replaced 1 day a week of work with membership of a community group and were supported by mentors who facilitated involvement of the participants in their group. Data collected provided information on the implementation of the program, the time and costs expended, and challenges encountered. Key to the model was a coordinator, skilled in generic case management and specific disability interventions (such as active support), who collaborated with others to manage the program. The authors note that by detailing the program logic underpinning the TTR programme, they have exposed the hidden work of supporting meaningful inclusion of people with intellectual disability in community groups and added to the limited stock of evidence-informed programs in this area. (Edited publisher abstract)
Telling stories
- Author:
- O’TOOLE Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 12(1), December 2011, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article describes how computer software can enable people with learning disabilities who do not communicate in traditional ways tell their own stories. The “Multi-me” beta software is currently being piloted around the UK. The trials aim to engage a diverse range of participants including children and young people with special educational needs, adults and older people with autistic spectrum disorders and learning disabilities, as well as those who are hearing impaired. Multi-me is a new online software tool that can help anyone to communicate and plan their lives. The software is built around the idea of people telling and sharing their own stories and getting involved in each other’s’ project planning online. Multi-me is especially useful for people who find other ways of communication less easy and need some support to help them live happily and achieve outcomes. It provides the perfect framework to enable user engagement and multi-agency collaboration across social care, health, education and home based settings.