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When the eagles fly: a report on resettlement of people with learning difficulties from long-stay institutions
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A critique of the progress being made in moving people with learning difficulties into the community.
Moving from a long-stay hospital to the community
- Author:
- OWEN Katherine
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 11.6.02, 2002, pp.39-40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the importance of knowing something about individuals when transferring people with learning disabilities from long-stay hospitals to the community. Draws on a research study whose preliminary findings suggest that important information about people with learning difficulties is lost in transition. The consequences of such a loss of information are discussed and suggestions offered to improve practice.
Uncertain future: experiences and expectations of people with mental handicaps of life beyond the hospital and hostel
- Author:
- DAY Peter R.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 2(2), 1989, pp.166-185.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reports on interviews with clients and staff.
From long-stay hospitals to community care: reconstructing the narratives of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- LEARNING Brian, ADDERLEY Hope
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 44(2), 2016, pp.167-171.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Raymond, a 62 year old gentleman diagnosed with severe and profound learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and severe challenging behaviour, who had lived in long stay campus-based hospital accommodation for 46 years was supported to move to a community project developed to support people to live in their own bespoke flat. This narrative case study describes the journey that Raymond took from institutionalised care to community life. (Publisher abstract)
Unsettling times
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, HUNTER Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.11.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As the Scottish Office embarks on a major review of services for people with learning difficulties, the authors explain how long-stay institutions are still home to many people.
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.
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.
Vitamin C status and dietary intake in a long stay unit for clients with learning disabilities: implications for community care
- Author:
- CAUDERY Alison
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(2), 1995, pp.70-73.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports a study which revealed that despite adequate supplies of Vitamin C-rich drinks/food at ward level 26% of clients tested had some degree of Vitamin C hypovitaminosis. There did not however appear to be any significant difference in current dietary intake between clients who had a degree of hypovitamins and clients who did not, so the implications is that previous dietary intakes were poor and have never been replenished. Looks at the implications for nutrition training and community care.
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.
Living in the community after leaving long-stay hospital: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Long-term hospital and institutional care for people with learning difficulties are rapidly being phased out in favour of living in the community. A study of people with learning difficulties who had left long-stay hospital residence five years earlier found that significantly better outcomes and opportunities had been achieved in the community at the expense of a modest increase in costs.