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Family involvement in the pre-discharge assessment of long-stay patients with learning disabilities: a qualitative study
- Author:
- BARTON R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(2), June 1998, pp.79-88.
This article focuses on relatives' attitudes to, and feelings about, their involvement in a programme of individual assessments carried out in anticipation of the discharge of adults with learning disabilities from a long-stay hospital. It emerged that although most respondents were reasonably satisfied with the assessment process itself, this did not imply that they were satisfied with their relative's future prospects. It was concluded that although attempts had been made to involve relatives in the assessment process respondents had little sense of working in partnership with professionals.