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This time next year
- Author:
- MUNRO Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.11.01, 2001, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
After unfounded allegations of abuse at a pioneering learning disabilities unit, staff morale plummeted. Finds out what went wrong and what the future holds for service and those who run it.
Better lives: changing services for people with learning difficulties
- Editor:
- BOOTH Tim
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. Joint Unit for Social Services Research
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 137p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Papers from a conference organised by Community Care and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 27 April 1990 at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Issues discussed include: quality of service, experiences of people resettling in the community; self advocacy; promoting residents rights; developing friendships; and families with young adults with challenging behaviour.
Quality of life for persons with disabilities: international perspectives and issues
- Editor:
- GOODE David
- Publisher:
- Brookline Books
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 218p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Comparative study of the quality of life of people with learning difficulties. Includes papers on: quality of life in the Danish context; a six year study of a quality of life model; Australian legislation, service delivery and quality of life; overview of theory and practice in Germany; quality of life and unemployment among people with disabilities in Hungary; the National Quality of Life for Persons with Disabilities Project in the USA; the California quality of life project; towards an understanding of quality of life in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities; quality of life and ageing; quality of life at school; training staff in quality of life issues; and the concept of quality of life and its current applications in the field of developmental disabilities.