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Seeing the light of day
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.2.91, 1991, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Lincolnshire SSD, in conjunction with local health authorities and voluntary organisations has increased its day care provision for people with mental handicaps, a process of change required by the closure of two hospitals and the consequent discharge of over five hundred people
Normalisation is not easy
- Authors:
- GLENNERSTER Howard, KORMAN Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.5.90, 1990, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Lessons from the Darenth Park closure have shown that the philosophy of normalisation is deceptively simple in theory, much more complex in practice.
Hospital closure and the resettlement of residents: the case of Darenth Park mental handicap hospital
- Author:
- WING Lorna
- Publisher:
- Gower
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 215p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Reports on research into Darenth Park Hospital patients who were moved out into alternative living units, and the organisation of those units and the lifestyles of the residents.
Mental hospital closures: the way forward?
- Author:
- JONES Kathleen
- Publisher:
- University of York. Continuing Education Group
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 13p., diags., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Services in Dorset for people with mental handicaps
- Authors:
- GRIFFITHS D., BROWNING R.L.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 15(1), 1987, pp.12-15.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes the provision of community care and the gradual closing down of a local hospital.
Hospital closures in the eighties
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- Campaign for People with Mental Handicaps
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 21p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Home at last?: the same as you?: National Implementation Group report of the short-life working group on hospital closure and service reprovision
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Community Care Division. National Implementation Group
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive,|Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The same as you? review of services for people with learning disabilities was published in May 2000. A key recommendation was that all long-stay learning disability hospitals should close by 2005. People should not have a hospital as their home. In order to achieve this successfully, appropriate arrangements have to be in place in the community, not just for people leaving hospital, but also for those who in the past would have relied on hospitals for support. The needs of all people with learning disabilities should be considered as part of the hospital closure strategy. This recommendation is only one of 14 recommendations that relate directly to hospital closures, and implementation of these other recommendations impact on this programme. This report starts with a brief look at the role of learning disability hospitals in Scotland. It goes on to describe the work of the short-life working group, the information gathered, and the recommended action to ensure successful implementation by the end of 2005. It includes real stories from people with learning disabilities and carers. Their views and experiences have influenced the key objectives in setting out what now needs to happen.
Response to 'Progress with learning disability hospital closures in Scotland'
- Authors:
- HUNTER Susan, STALKER Kirsten
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(1), January 2003, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Comments on an article in this issue of Tizard Learning Disability Review. The authors draw on their own research mapping the progress of hospital closures in Scotland and argue that progress remains slow. They find there is a long way to go before recommendations of the Scottish Executive publication 'The same as you?' will be met.
Moving out: the impact of relocation from hospital to community on the quality of life of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 97p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Critical review of 71 research reports which examined the impact of care in the community on the quality of life of people with learning difficulties who had been discharged from residential care. Draws out key implications for the purchasers and providers of health and social care.
The resettlement game: policy and procrastination in the closure of mental handicap hospitals
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 111p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at the closure of mental handicap hospitals. Describes the problems facing people waiting to be moved out and discusses how new homes being provided in the community do not always provide people with the kind of life they want.