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Supporting people with learning disability and dementia: a training resource pack for managers, team leaders and trainers
- Authors:
- CHAPMAN Alan, CURTICE Lisa
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Dementia Services Development Centre; Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 205p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
This pack is intended to help managers and teams to consider wide practice issues with team member when a person with learning disability develops dementia. It is designed to be a useful focus for learning within a team and addresses key aspects of the values, knowledge, understanding and skills required of a social care worker by the Scottish Social Services Council, but also has relevance to other professional groups. Part1 describes the knowledge base, Part 2 gives a best practice case study, and part three describes seven "discussions": working with the person, communicating, seeing meaning in behaviour, responding to behaviours, pathways to support, positive risk assessment and management, and teams and multidisciplinary working.
Developing local area co-ordination in Scotland: supporting individuals and families in their own communities
- Author:
- CURTICE Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(1), January 2003, pp.38-44.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Following its development and evaluation in Western Australia, local area co-ordination (LAC) has been included as an integral part of the strategy for people with learning disabilities in Scotland. Local Area Coordinators (LACs) work directly with individuals and families to help them find the information and local supports they need. This article looks at the background to the adoption of Local Area Coordinators in Scotland.
How is it going? A survey of what matters most to people with learning disabilities in Scotland today
- Author:
- CURTICE Lisa
- Publisher:
- ENABLE
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Results of a survey into what matters most to people with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders in Scotland are presented. 605 people (about 1 in 200 of the population of people with learning disabilities in Scotland) replied to a postal questionnaire. What matters most to people with learning disabilities is getting their own home, having friends and being able to go out more. They also want to make sure they stay in contact with family and they keep the support that is essential to their independence. They enjoy socialising more than anything else and next to that, sport. They hope for new experiences. Findings and conclusions from the research in terms of choice and independence, friends and relationships, leisure, work, and education and training are presented.
How does the community care?: public attitudes to community care in Scotland
- Authors:
- CURTICE Lisa, PETCH Alison
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
As part of the 2001 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, the Scottish Executive funded a module of 40 questions on the attitudes of people in Scotland to a range of community care issues. Interviews were completed with 1605 individuals across Scotland. Three quarters of respondents felt comfortable about living next door to a frail older person and more than half about living next door to a person with a learning disability. Less than half, however, felt comfortable about living next door to a person with mental illness or with dementia. Respondents were strongly in favour of individuals with support needs living in the community rather than in care homes or hospitals. This view was most common for a person with a learning disability and least common (but still the majority) for a person with dementia. Most people interviewed thought that a person with a mental illness or a learning disability should not serve on a jury. Support needs, it was felt, should in the main be met by paid workers. The exception was for the person with a learning disability needing to be accompanied to a club where the potential contribution of family members and volunteers was cited. A substantial majority considered the funding of support to be the responsibility of the government. Respondents with personal experience of care were even more likely than others to take this view. There was strong support for individuals remaining within their own homes when this was their wish, even when this was a more expensive option. Only a fifth of respondents thought that those able to pay should be able to access better quality provision, suggesting strong support for equity. Respondents expressed a willingness to pay higher taxes to generate funds for increased expenditure on health, support for older people and pensions. The top priorities for additional government spending on older people were home helps, special housing provision, and district nurses.