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The sun finally sets on Orchard Hill
- Author:
- TICKLE Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.09, 2009, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
By 30 April, Orchard Hill, the last remaining hospital housing people with learning disabilities will finally close. Residents who have moved out of the hospital are now in a mixture of supported independent living and registered residential provision. This article looks at whether the process has been successful from the perspective of residents, families and staff.
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.
Cornwall: has the tide turned
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.06.07, 2007, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Twelve months after a report exposed the appalling treatment of people with learning disabilities in Cornish care, the author assesses progress made by external change team charged with improving the county's services.
A home of your own: moving from community residential services to supported living for people with learning disabilities in the North West
- Author:
- HOWARD Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(3), July 1996, pp.18-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The replacement of long-stay hospitals by Care in the Community provides an opportunity to reflect on the quality of people's lives in the community and use of resources. New ways of assisting people with learning disabilities to live in their own home are emerging. These 'supported living' arrangements do not offer a model but rather some guiding principles for finding out how people want to live, and the design, development and co-ordination of informal and formal supports. The conditions working for and against developing supported living as a mainstream option are reviewed, and what is being learnt about person-centred planning; supporting people with complex needs; managing costs and service effectiveness; and the enabling of purchasers.
Deinstitutionalization and community living: intellectual disability services in Britain, Scandinavia and the USA
- Editors:
- MANSELL Jim, ERICSSON Kent
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 307p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative study reviewing the changes that have taken place over the last 25 years in services to people with learning difficulties, focusing in particular on the development of care in the community. Includes papers on: closing institutions in New York State; issues in community services in Britain; deinstitutionalisation in the Norwegian welfare state; housing for people with learning difficulties; supported living programmes in the USA; the immediate psychological effects of deinstitutionalisation; transition to community services in Norway;and the impact on families of service users.