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Costs and outcomes of community services for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editors:
- STANCLIFFE Roger J., LAKIN K. Charlie, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 346p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book presents information about costs and outcomes of services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The main focus is on community services in the USA, but there are also contributions from the UK and Australia.
Growth in residential services in Australia and the United States: 1997–2002
- Authors:
- STANCLIFFE Roger J., LAKIN K. Charlie, PROUTY Robert W.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(3), September 2005, pp.181-184.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article looks at the growth in residential services in Australia and the United States for people with intellectual disability as it related to national population growth. It aims to identify the extent of real growth in residential services by comparing annual changes in service provision with growth of the national population in Australia and the United States in 1997.
Planning and action
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, STANCLIFFE Roger J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Raises a a number of concerns about the possible impact of the systematic introduction of person-centred planning (PCP) across services for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. The authors foresee a danger that system-wide adoption of PCP will be characterised over zealous 'selling' of the purported benefits without sufficient attention to the difficulties and without the necessary changes to system architecture to ensure that those involved in PCP have the authority or resources to achieve the plan's goals. If so, PCP will become another fad, and service users, and their families will become even more discouraged, disheartened and alienated by a system characterised by rhetoric rather than meaningful action. Where the authors differ, is in the interpretation of the existing evidence regarding the impact of individual planning systems in general and, perhaps, in the way forward.
Provision of residential services for people with intellectual disability in Australia: an international comparison
- Author:
- STANCLIFFE Roger J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 27(2), June 2002, pp.117-124.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
National data on the provision of services to Australians with a disability under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA) have been gathered since 1995 using the Minimum Data Set (MDS). This paper analyses MDS data on residential services for people with intellectual disability between 1995 and 1999. Trends include: a steady growth in the number of recipients of CSDA-funded residential services; a slow decline in the proportion of people housed in large residentials; a gradual increase in the number of people served in community group homes; and a more rapid growth in outreach/drop-in services such as semi-independent living. Makes comparisons with the USA and United Kingdom and concludes that Australia needs to increase the provision of residential services to people with intellectual disability.