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Preparing for a positive future: meeting the age related needs of older people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WARD Cally
- Publisher:
- Association for Residential Care
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 211p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
Report from a development project, Positive Futures, looking at people with learning difficulties in the context of an ageing population and at what models of service and best practice should be developed as the needs of people with learning difficulties change as they grow older. Focuses on the challenges and opportunities for commissioners and purchasers, and service providers themselves, emphasising throughout the need to listen to users. Section four contains resources and information.
Lost opportunities: purchasing strategies in housing and support for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(9), May 1998, pp.296-299.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
For people with learning difficulties who have complex or challenging needs, institutional or residential care is often seen as the only option, on grounds of both cost and suitability. Reports on new research which challenges these assumptions, and describes examples of good practice where purchasers have developed alternative, more flexible and less costly services to support people in their own homes. Research shows that strategies which foster independence produce savings in the long-term.
Monitoring contracts for residential care: a case study
- Author:
- MILES Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(2), April 1998, pp.38-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper reviews how social care contracting in learning disability services has developed in the UK, making use of experience in Berkshire. Particular areas identified as needing improvement were staff induction and training, care planning and review, meeting health needs, and building the setting and measuring of individual service outcomes into all areas of practice, especially provider internal quality-assurance. The limited role of the service user in the process is highlighted.
The physical abuse of people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours: lessons for commissioners and providers
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(1), January 1998, pp.18-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the circumstances surrounding the physical abuse of persons with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours in a residential service and the findings of a related inquiry. The findings are used to identify the signs and signals associated with a culture of abuse, of use to commissioners and providers for helping detect abusive services and for adults protection more widely.
The cost of opportunity: purchasing strategies in the housing and support arrangements of people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 88p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report drawing on a number of examples of housing and support arrangements to show that people with learning difficulties, including those with complex needs, can be supported in their own homes, resulting in more cost effective and desirable housing and support for all.
Primary health care and health gain for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- KERR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(4), October 1998, pp.6-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Evidence suggests that the current delivery of primary care to people with a learning disability does not adequately meet their needs. This review examines this evidence, highlights barriers to the effective delivery of health care and assesses these barriers, pilot projects and the few intervention studies published. Concludes that effective response to health needs will need a change in the working patterns of primary, secondary and social care providers. The contracting system and the move to locality-based purchasing may be the ideal catalysts for these changes.
Challenging the medical model
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Tim, LAWES Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 11(4), April 1998, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Across the country there are wide variations in the 'location' of care with many people still residing in NHS beds in buildings owned by health trusts. Argues that it is important for people with learning difficulties who have complex needs to clarify who is responsible for providing their service. Goes on to describe how the Avocet Trust, a not-for-profit organisation, uses a social care framework for people with both learning difficulties and mental health problems.