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Group homes: an ordinary life?
- Author:
- KINSELLA Peter
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Argues for improvements in small scale group homes and supported living for people with learning difficulties and in particular for greater integration and participation in the wider community.
Supported living: a new paradigm
- Author:
- KINSELLA Peter
- Publisher:
- National Disability Team
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 48p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Study looking at supported living schemes for people with learning difficulties.
How Meriden Street tenants run their own show
- Authors:
- HARBRIDGE Elinor, CROWHURST Greg
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 11(3), January 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on a co-operative housing project for people with learning difficulties where the residents sit on the board of management. Traces the history of the project, identifies the key factors leading to its success and talks to some of the residents about what it means to them.
Celebrating the ordinary: the emergence of options in community living as a thoughtful organization
- Authors:
- O'BRIEN John, O'BRIEN Connie Lyle, JACOB Gail
- Publisher:
- Inclusion Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 248p.,illus.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Options in Community Living is a small, local agency supporting about a hundred people with developmental disabilities in Madison, WI. Written from the point of view of the staff, part one describes and analyses Options and includes policies and documents. Part two contains accounts by staff of their work with users at the project.
Living support networks: an evaluation of the services provided by KeyRing
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Describes an innovative form of supported living for people with learning difficulties, aiming to plug the gap between residential care and no support at all. KeyRing establishes small networks of up to nine people with learning difficulties, each with their own flat. Each network has the support of a community living worker who lives nearby.
Home rules
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, KINSELLA Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.8.93, 1993, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
In the U.K. group housing for people with learning difficulties can still have institutional regimes and be far from home for the residents. In the U.S.A. there have been moves in recent years towards support living - individually-organised packages for individuals in their own homes. Options in Community Living in Madison, Wisconsin is one such scheme, which has been in operation for the last ten years. Learning from experiences in the U.S.A., the National Development Team is to establish a Supported Living Initiative in the U.K., hoping to take over where the 'Ordinary Life' movement left off.
Service contact: changes over five years in a total population sample
- Authors:
- de PAIVA Siobhan, LOWE Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 5(1), 1992, pp.33-48.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Describes results of an evaluation of the NIMROD project's impact on people living in hospitals, supported accommodation and private family homes, in terms of services used.
Last months of life of people with intellectual disabilities: a UK population‐based study of death and dying in intellectual disability community services
- Authors:
- TODD Stuart, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 33(6), 2020, pp.1245-1258.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: Population‐based data are presented on the nature of dying in intellectual disability services. Methods: A retrospective survey was conducted over 18 months with a sample of UK‐based intellectual disability service providers that supported over 12,000. Core data were obtained for 222 deaths within this population. For 158 (71%) deaths, respondents returned a supplemented and modified version of VOICES‐SF. Results: The observed death was 12.2 deaths per 1,000 people supported per year, but just over a third deaths had been deaths anticipated by care staff. Mortality patterns, place of usual care and availability of external support exerted considerable influence over outcomes at the end of life. Conclusion: Death is not a common event in intellectual disability services. A major disadvantage experienced by people with intellectual disabilities was that their deaths were relatively unanticipated. People with intellectual disabilities living in supported living settings, even when their dying was anticipated, experienced poorer outcomes. (Edited publisher abstract)
Emergent voices. Exploring the lived experience of seniors with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- HUTCHINSON Gunn Strand, SANDVIN Johans Tveit
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 22(5), 2019, pp.738-748.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In Norway, as in many European countries, there has been a major change in living conditions for people with intellectual disability over the last 30 years. State policy has changed, involving the reduction of institutional care with the aim of normalising people’s life situations and service provision. A challenge in the early years of reform was a lack of first-hand experiences. Researchers attempting to interview people with intellectual disabilities themselves about moving out of institutions concluded that this was methodologically problematic, as informants tended to answer what they thought was expected of them. While this may also reflect features of the research at that time, many of those with first-hand experiences of the reform have later confirmed that they had but a weak voice of their own. Today, their voices are stronger, and many of them provide important testimonies of the ‘true consequences’ of the reform. This article reveals some of these testimonies. Through in-depth interviews, six people with intellectual disabilities tell about their institutional lives and their present lives in the community. The strongest testimony to the reform is perhaps our informants’ ability to give words to, and reflect on, what was previously just a silent pain. (Edited publisher abstract)
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)