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Intellectual disability and homelessness
- Authors:
- MERCIER C., PICARD S.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 55(4), April 2011, pp.441-449.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Poverty has been associated with intellectual disability (ID) as both a risk factor and a consequence. However, little is known about persons with ID whose level of poverty and social isolation has driven them to residential instability. This paper describes the situation of 68 people with ID (mean age 43 years, 63% men) who had been or were homeless in Montreal and were currently in contact with a homeless persons outreach team. The study aims were to describe the characteristics, history and current situation of these persons and to report within-group differences as a function of gender and current residential status. The data were collected from files using an anonymous chart summary. Persons with ID exhibited several related problems such as mental health problems, substance misuse and relationship or family breakdown, which can sometimes mask ID in all but the most vulnerable. Women more often experienced relatively short, as opposed to chronic, homelessness partly because they were also more likely to maintain contact with their family. Chronic homelessness appeared to parallel the number and severity of their other problems. When compared with a previous data the population of homeless persons with ID differed from the overall homeless population in a number of respects. Implications for policy are discussed.
Staying with people who slap us around: gender, juggling responsibilities and violence in paid (and unpaid) care work
- Author:
- BAINES Donna
- Journal article citation:
- Gender, Work and Organization, 13(2), March 2006, pp.129-151.
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
Little is actually known about women's occupational health, let alone how men and women may experience similar jobs and health risks differently. Drawing on data from a larger study of social service workers in Canada, this article examines four areas where gender is pivotal to the new ways of organizing caring labour, including the expansion of unpaid work and the use of personal resources to subsidize agency resources; gender-neutral violence; gender-specific violence and the juggling of home and work responsibilities. Collective assumptions and expectations about how men and women should perform care work result in men's partial insulation from the more intense forms of exploitation, stress and violence. This article looks at health risks, not merely as compensable occupational health concerns, but as avoidable products of forms of work organization that draw on notions of the endlessly stretchable capacity of women to provide care work in any context, including a context of violence. Indeed, the logic of women's elastic caring appear crucial to the survival of some agencies and the gender order in these workplaces.
A personal touch: managing the risks of abuse during intimate and personal care
- Authors:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul, CARNABY Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(4), November 2000, pp.4-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper identifies considerations for managing the risks of abuse during intimate and personal care for people with learning disabilities and complex needs. Drawing on insights gleaned from research involving interviews with staff, policies and procedures in specialist day and residential services, and the development of a staff training resource, the paper identifies a framework for adult protection practice in this critical area of support.
Child sexual abuse and the black disabled child
- Author:
- BERNARD Claudia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(3), June 1999, pp.325-339.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the effects of sexual abuse on black disabled children. Focusing on black children with learning disabilities, it examines how the dimensions of race, gender, and disability compound the problems they face after sexual abuse. It is argued that the way in which black disabled children and their families interpret their experience is likely to differ from other groups of disabled children. The article concludes with some reflections on the implications for making risk assessment for black disabled children.
Implementing adult protection policies in Kent and East Sussex
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 27(3), July 1998, pp.371-396.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Reports on the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two social services departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for consistent reporting are set out and the tension which exists between formal and informal approaches to the subsequent investigation of abuse discussed with reference to American vulnerable adult statutes.