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Cultivating quality
- Authors:
- KINSEY Peter, MAGUIRE Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.8.01, 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The raw deal that people with learning difficulties often receive could be about to improve. Looks at the recommendations of the new white paper and adds a few suggestions of their own.
Satisfaction for all: a framework for assessing life satisfaction for all people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MONEY Della, COLLINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(2), 1999, pp.52-57.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article presents a framework for assessing life satisfaction for all people with learning disabilities. The framework is designed to be an all-inclusive service evaluation strategy, which embraces all service users, regardless of their abilities. It is a practice tool, for interdisciplinary use, providing a starting point for service development. The article concludes with future implications and recommendations for surveying the life satisfaction of people with learning disabilities.
A healthy dialogue: challenging the 'psycho-medical monologue' in services for people with challenging behaviours
- Author:
- GOBLE Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 16(4), Winter 1998, pp.287-293.
This paper explores the transformative potential of dialogue-based approaches in services for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours, and the necessity of challenging 'psycho-medical' discourses and culture.
Cross-cultural measurement of critical quality of life concepts
- Authors:
- KEITH Kenneth D., HEAL Laird W., SCHALOCK Robert L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 21(4), December 1996, pp.273-293.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A semantic differential technique was used to assess the meaning of 10 quality of life (QOL) concepts across seven cultures: Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Japan, Republic of China, and the United States. Each concept was rated on nine pairs of adjectives representing three dimensions (value, potency, or activity). Across the 7 countries all 10 of the QOL concepts received strong positive ratings on the value dimension, and lower positive ratings on the potency and activity dimensions. Japan, however, was an exception to the general pattern with Japanese raters assigning negative ratings for value and activity and positive ratings for potency. The results are discussed in relation to the differences between individualistic and collective cultures.
Fostering integration
- Author:
- THOMPSON Jeanette
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 1.3.95, 1995, pp.55-57.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how better personal social networks can improve the quality of life of people with learning disabilities.
Foster family care for persons with mental retardation
- Authors:
- BORTHWICK-DUFFY Sharon, et al
- Publisher:
- American Association on Mental Retardation
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 207p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Research study focusing on the factors that influence the development and quality of life of people with learning disabilities in foster care, with the objective of isolating characteristics of the individual and home environment that were likely to affect development and quality of life.
A fit person to be removed: personal accounts of life in a mental deficiency institution
- Authors:
- POTTS Maggie, FIDO Rebecca
- Publisher:
- Northcote House
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
17 long term residents speak about their experiences of institutional life and their ways of coping.
Better lives: a review of the quality of life of the people living at Barcourt Hospital and proposals for change
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on an inspection.
Report of a follow up survey on problems experienced by people discharged from health and family community services residential care into the community during 1986
- Authors:
- PARSONS T.T., BUCKLEY R., KILBY C.A
- Publisher:
- Sheffield Case Register
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Happier in the community
- Authors:
- JONES C., BASSETT S.
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.5.88, 1988, p.510.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
A survey in Gwent HA examined the quality of life of mentally handicapped people living in the community.