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Quality Guaranteed
- Author:
- LEESON Jayne
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(7), August 2010, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article highlights the work of an audit teams made up of self-advocates. The Changing Our Lives audit team was formed in 2004 when a group of self-advocates decided they wanted to find out how they could check that services giving people with learning disabilities a good quality life. Over the next two years this group wrote a set of sixteen quality of life standards and developed a person-centred strategy of auditing services. Six years later, the team is made up of eight trained, paid auditors with learning disabilities. In the last two years this team has carried out one hundred and fifteen audits across a range of services including residential, nursing and supported living services, short breaks, day services, acute hospital services, mental health inpatient units, a low security forensic unit and learning disability mental health step down services. One of the auditors summed up their work saying, “We need to make sure people with learning disabilities are leading quality lives and being treated as equal in the community.”
'I always do what they tell me to do': choice-making opportunities in the lives of two older persons with severe learning difficulties living in a community setting
- Authors:
- TREECE Ann, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(6), November 1999, pp.791-804.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents a case study conducted to document the perceptions of two older adults with severe learning difficulties regarding their quality of life and their experience with choice-making in areas of life they identified as significant to them. Although the participants expressed overall satisfaction with their lives, they were not content with their choice-making opportunities. The findings are discussed in terms of theories proposed in current literature on the subject.
Aging, rights and quality of life: prospects for older people with developmental disabilities
- Editors:
- HERR Stanley S., WEBER Germain
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 413p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Collection of papers on the rights of older people with learning difficulties in the United States. Contains sections on: human rights and legal considerations; quality of life and quality standards; service models and innovations; and future directions.
Reviewing respite services for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FLYNN Margaret, WILLOUGHBY Paul, ELEY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(2), April 1996, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Caring for people who live at home - a Department of Health initiative - triggered a review of respite services in Liverpool in 1993. Self-advocates from Liverpool's largest day centre, Holt Hall, were invited to work with the National Development Team to ensure and integration of their views and ideas. In contrast to most fact-finding about respite services, advocates made a significant and unique contribution to the review. Their critique and ideas have resulted in new prospects and possibilities for respite services in the city. This paper considers some of the issues which arose during the course of the audit.
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.