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An evaluation of an adult residential service using PASS 1984
- Author:
- COMMUNITY MENTAL HANDICAP EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Community and Mental Handicap Education and Research Association
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 43p., tables, illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Annual primary health care contacts by people with intellectual disabilities: a comparison of three matched groups
- Authors:
- HALSTEAD Simon A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 13(2), 2000, pp.100-107.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The use of primary care services by three matched groups of people with intellectual disabilities was compared over a period of one year. Differences in the patterns of provision were detected between hospital intellectual disability specialists and general practitioners. The degree of behavioural disturbance and disability of the subjects were found to be the most important predictors of primary care contact.
Visions in a vacuum
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, BRANDON Althea
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(1), July 1994, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Inappropriate structures make it difficult for staff to develop a positive vision of how life could be for residents. Reports the results of a review of 40 care plans.
Becoming part of the family
- Authors:
- GREENE T., GREENE K.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.7.87, 1987, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes informal assessment methods and the preparation of care plans when accepting mentally handicapped people to a residential home.
Strategic commissioning of accommodation services for adults with learning disabilities
- Author:
- AUDITOR GENERAL FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Wales Audit Office
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 62
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This review assesses whether local authorities in Wales have effective approaches to commissioning accommodation for adults with learning disabilities. It included audit fieldwork at five local authorities; analysis of performance and expenditure; and modelling future growth and costs. Based on the findings, the review found that local authorities are generally meeting the accommodation needs of adults with learning disabilities, but existing commissioning arrangements are unlikely to be fit for purpose in the future. It reports that local authorities are underestimating the complexity in meeting the long-term accommodation needs of people with learning disabilities and their carers and need to do more to integrate the services. It also found that commissioning strategies do not always result in cost effective services that meet people's needs. The report estimates that authorities will need to increase investment by £365 million in accommodation in the next twenty years to address a growth in the number of people with learning disabilities who will need housing and the increase in the number with moderate or severe needs. The report makes recommendations to local authorities, in six key areas, including: to continue to focus on prevention by providing effective support at home and a range of step up accommodation; to improve the approach to planning services for the future, and to do more to involve people with learning disabilities and their carers in care planning and agreeing pathways to further independence. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, October 2001, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at some of the research to come out of the Growing Older with Learning Disabilities (GOLD) Programme at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities. The article focuses on projects in housing, residential services for older people and involving people with learning disabilities in planning their futures.
Benefit groups and resource groups for adults with intellectual disabilities in residential accommodation
- Authors:
- COMAS-HERRERA Adelina, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(2), 2001, pp.120-140.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines whether 'benefit groups' and 'resource groups' can be developed so as to assist decision-making processes in service commissioning by using a survey of the characteristics of 2093 adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in residential accommodation (mainly National Health Service trusts), and a supplementary collection of data on service utilization and costs (for a subsample of 930 clients). The clients were classified, according to their needs into benefit groups (BGs), and the services which they used were classified in terms of coherence as likely packages of care and similar consumption of resources as resource groups (RGs). It proved possible to construct nine BGs and 96 possible RGs which had both intuitive meaning and explanatory power. Statistical analysis showed that the resulting BGs and RGs are meaningful ways of classifying ID and challenging behaviour needs and costs.
To close or not to close. The future of learning disability hospitals in Scotland
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, HUNTER Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 19(2), May 1999, pp.177-194.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article deals with the resettlement of people with learning difficulties from Scottish hospitals. First it outlines the policy background, tracing the rise and demise of the long-stay institution. It then reports on a study examining current resettlement policies in Scotland, where there is no national closure programme. The research found that resettlement is largely in disarray, with particular difficulties in planning, financial arrangements and inter-agency collaboration. Argues that there is a great risk of hospitals being perpetuated or reconstructed, particularly through the activities of NHS Trusts, and of people with dual labels remaining resident in them for years to come.
The prevalence and balance of care for intellectual disability: secondary analysis of the OPCS Disability Surveys
- Authors:
- KAVANAGH Shane M., OPIT Louis J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12(2), 1999, pp.127-148.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper examines the feasibility of using the OPCS Disability Services to examine intellectual disability and provides estimates of prevalence and the balance of care between communal establishments and households, comparisons of disabilities and focuses on the care need of people living in households. The intention is to supplement recent information to local purchasing authorities and provide data against which local-based services can be compared.
Hospital reprovision and the private finance initiative: is the PFI the best way to use private finance for supported housing?
- Author:
- PALMER John
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 1(1), March 1998, pp.14-18.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Research demonstrates that the PFI process in its current form is not well designed for the procurement of housing and residential care within the Health Service. This article draws conclusions and recommendations for using the PFI more effectively is this domain.