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Workers for freedom
- Author:
- MITCHELL Fraser
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.3.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Supported employment for people with learning difficulties enables them to be active members of the community. The author assesses three schemes in the USA where the theory is put into practice.
Theorising empowerment: individual power and community care
- Author:
- SERVIAN Richard
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Argues that community care policy is the latest in a long line of policies which have failed to live up to the promise of empowering vulnerable individuals. Focuses on people with learning difficulties and presents a framework for analysis to help individuals avoid becoming disempowered.
Reunited at last
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.12.96, 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As more and more people with learning difficulties move out of long-stay hospitals, they are resuming contact with long-forgotten relatives. Reports on their journeys of rediscovery.
Community support teams for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours: results of a national survey
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 5(4), October 1996, pp.395-406.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the results of a survey of community support teams for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour in England and Wales. The survey looks at the organisation and cost-effectiveness of community support teams; service aims and the impact of the teams.
Disaster time
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.10.96, 1996, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Two surveys have shown community care services for people with learning difficulties are heavily under funded. Describes how campaigning groups are worried that unless something is done soon they are heading for disaster.
The isolation of 'villages'
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(1), September 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author, Director of Values into Action, describes the findings of the recent report, which rejects the notion that village communities are cost effective. Stresses that people with learning difficulties have the right to live non-institutionalised lives in the community, and that transforming of mental handicap hospitals into village communities would amount to little more that the erection of new signboards.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1, April 1996, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looking at research relating to people with learning difficulties says there are hard lessons to be learned, but there are also positive signs of what can be achieved if those lessons are learned.
Older people with learning difficulties leaving institutional care - a case of double jeopardy
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol, RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(2), March 1996, pp.125-150.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
People with learning difficulties are now surviving into old age and more and more of them are being resettled from long-stay hospitals. This article examines some of the key barriers facing, and dilemmas involved in, the provision of community-based services to this newly emerging user group. Recent field research on older people with learning difficulties who have been resettled into the community is used to illustrate the challenges facing service providers. Particular reference is made to the impact of age discrimination and traditional differences between service specialisms. Shows that both official definitions of need in old age and the aspirations of the service responses to those needs have been artificially constructed in very narrow terms, especially when compared with the principled approach to service provision for younger people with learning difficulties.
Out of isolation
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.3.96, 1996, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asperger's syndrome is characterised by difficulty in communication and social relationships and an inflexibility in thinking and behaviour. The syndrome is a form of Autism and adults with this, living unsupported in the community, are vulnerable. Finds out how a project in Birmingham is helping this neglected client group.
In from the cold
- Author:
- WOOLRYCH Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.2.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at project to aid independent living for people with learning difficulties by forecasting needs and makes a clear case for new housing strategies.