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Life history: the impact of a changing service provision on an individual with learning disabilities
- Author:
- DI TERLIZZI Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(4), 1994, pp.501-517.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The life history of a woman with learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour is reconstructed with the purpose of identifying the major events during 30 years of her life in institutions. She has no verbal or other means of communication and the study relied on information gathered during interviews with her parents and of previous services members of staff. The description of residential and educational environments provides a background to evaluate the impact of transitions and associated changes in service provision. The discussion adopts a longitudinal approach to identify the combined action of opportunities, support and significant life events on her quality of life. The analysis investigates the relationship between her reported levels of participation and problem behaviours over time.
Moving towards independence
- Author:
- ALMEY S.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 27.4.89, 1989, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Describes how a community mental handicap team used a participative approach to co-ordinate the work of several agencies who helped two men with learning difficulties set up their own home.
Consumer-led service planning
- Author:
- HARPER G.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, March 1988, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Clwyd SSD's services to the mentally handicapped practice consumer participation.
Changing days
- Authors:
- WHITTAKER Andrea, McINTOSH Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28(1), March 2000, pp.3-8.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The People First conference, which was held in Edinburgh, UK, in 1997, passed the following motion: 'Day centres should not waste people's time or people's lives'. This is a challenging statement which will be echoed by many people involved in providing and supporting day services for people with learning difficulties. The present article outlines how the King's Fund Changing Days project has tried to respond to this challenge over the past 5 years. More detailed accounts can be found in the publications which have resulted from the work.
User friendly
- Author:
- ETHERINGTON Alice
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.8.95, 1995, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Supporting and listening to care users ensures they get the services they want. Looks at one example of where this is happening and assess the results.
Respite services (short-term breaks) for adult citizens with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HAYES Lesley, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(3), 1995, pp.106-109.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Respite which has traditionally been perceived as a service for cares is increasingly being seen as one which also benefits service users. To gauge the extent to which this shift might be occurring, the definition of respite as applied by Social Services departments is explored. Despite a range of options across authorities, and an informal desire to shift the nature of provision, choice continues to be limited largely to residential provision.
Finding a future
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.11.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Earlier this year People First inspected the closure and resettlement programmes in the London boroughs of Sutton and Haringey for people with learning difficulties. Looks at the choices they are given as they are moved out into the community.
Into the community: a comparison of care management and traditional approaches to resettlement
- Authors:
- HIGGINS Ray, RICHARDSON Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 28(3), September 1994, pp.221-235.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The resettlement of people with learning disabilities from long-stay hospitals has been under way for a number of years in England. This process has generally been dominated by the exigencies of the available services. A needs-led approach, emphasized in recent community care legislation, in which new services are sought on the basis of the specific requirements of services users, has been used infrequently for this purpose. Compares the process of implementing a needs-led care management approach to resettlement with the implementation of a more traditional service-led approach. It also suggests some important lessons for the application of a needs-led approach to hospital resettlement.
Supporting roles
- Authors:
- KINSELLA Peter, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A shadow has been cast over group homes for people with learning difficulties. Research on the schemes revealed that many residents in the homes do not really choose where they are going to live, with whom, their support staff, their routines or their expenditure. As the major residential alternative to hospitals and hostels for people with learning difficulties the life style offered is still often powerless and controlled. In the United States there has been a strong movement towards Supported living, where many people receive a mixture of paid and informal supports which are individually planned and arranged around them; and in the UK the National Development Team for people with learning difficulties is just launching its Supported Living Initiative. Looks at the future in supported living.
Supporting 'needs-led' services : implications for planning and management systems (a case study in mental handicap services)
- Authors:
- MCGRATH Morag, GRANT Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 21(1), 1992, pp.71-97.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Identifies two elements of needs-led services : user participation and management delegation; uses a case study from the All Wales Strategy for services to mentally handicapped people to illustrate and discuss three models of planning and management and the implications for implementing community care.