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Supporting older carers of people with learning disabilities: planning for the future
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 2(4), December 1999, pp.25-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Sharing Caring Project (SCP) in Sheffield supports carers between the age of 55 and 96 years who are known to be still caring at home for a person with learning disabilities. Many of these carers now have needs of their own as well as being carers. They need help to maintain the care they give and to plan for the future. This article describes one approach.
Care at a cost
- Author:
- McGARRY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, March 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
Housing benefit used to pay for some non-housing care services until a legal ruling in 1997 ruled this out. Assesses the implications of the new government proposal, in 'Supporting People', for all-in-one budgets for vulnerable people's homes and support services.
Institutional and community living in Australia
- Authors:
- GRIFFIN Tim, PARMENTER Trevor R.
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(1), January 1999, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the current trend away from institutional living to community living of people with learning difficulties in Australia. Looks at the challenges for policy-makers and service-funders.
Going with the flow: choice, dementia and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- STALKER Kirsten
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 48p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Report examining some of the issues facing older people with learning difficulties and dementia. Focuses on hearing the voices of users, and exploring the extent and nature of opportunities people have to make choices about their lives.
'I always do what they tell me to do': choice-making opportunities in the lives of two older persons with severe learning difficulties living in a community setting
- Authors:
- TREECE Ann, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(6), November 1999, pp.791-804.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents a case study conducted to document the perceptions of two older adults with severe learning difficulties regarding their quality of life and their experience with choice-making in areas of life they identified as significant to them. Although the participants expressed overall satisfaction with their lives, they were not content with their choice-making opportunities. The findings are discussed in terms of theories proposed in current literature on the subject.
User friendly
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.4.99, 1999, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how user involvement is changing the face of social care from the outside in.
Eliciting user perspectives on what works
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, GILLIARD Jane, DOWNS Murna G.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14(2), February 1999, pp.120-134.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article considers how research with people with learning difficulties has developed a culture for hearing the views of service users. It outlines various methodologies, with considerations of their strengths and weaknesses. Then reviews the research in dementia care which features the subjective experience, and finally draws out lessons and identifies possible ways forward.
Direct payments offer older people hope of greater empowerment
- Author:
- HEPTINSTALL Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 3(1), January 1999, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Following a nine-month review, the Government has announced that direct payments will be extended to people aged 65 and over. In this guide to direct payments, the author explains the policy background, the origins of the idea, how they work and the problems of the present legislation. It calls for the right to direct payments to be made mandatory on all local authorities.
Unmet need in community care: an analysis of policy and literature on need and unmet need, and a study of practitioners' concepts of unmet need
- Authors:
- KEDDIE David, BAUMANN Matthew
- Publisher:
- Dorset. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dorchester
Report looking at the difficulties in recording unmet need, and at the key characteristics of unmet need, focusing on Dorset. Defines need and unmet need; outlines research methods; and presents summaries of findings for disabled people, older people, people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems, and people with sensory impairments.
Making the right moves: rights and protection for adults with incapacity; laid before Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers, August 1999
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Statement setting out Scottish Executive plans to introduce comprehensive legislation in the Scottish Parliament to protect the rights and interests of adults who lack capacity because of mental health problems, learning difficulties, or dementia.