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Community care in perspective: care, control and citizenship
- Editors:
- WELSHMAN John, WALMSLEY Jan, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 278p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
The book fills a major gap in medical and social history by offering a detailed account of community provision for so called "vulnerable adults", from 1948 in the UK. The book focuses primarily on people with learning difficulties, but offers insights into community care more broadly, particularly through the use of key themes. The book has a contemporary relevance to aspiring and existing practitioners in health and social care because although historical lessons do not provide any kind of blueprint for the future, an understanding of the evolution of community care is of practical help to policy makers and service providers in offering a context for their work.
Disaster time
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.10.96, 1996, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Two surveys have shown community care services for people with learning difficulties are heavily under funded. Describes how campaigning groups are worried that unless something is done soon they are heading for disaster.
Physical activity of adults with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- TEMPLE Viviene A., WALKEY Jeff
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(4), December 2003, pp.342-352.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study examined the concurrence between proxy generated estimates of physical activity via diary recordings and accelerometer generated estimates of physical activity for 37 adults with intellectual disability living in supported group homes. Specifically, the following questions were addressed: (a) to what extent did the proxy estimates agree with the accelerometer estimates, and (b) how physically active were individuals in the study? The intraclass correlation coefficient between the two data sources was 0.78. The majority of participants' time was spent in sedentary activities with only 32% of individuals meeting the Australian national guidelines for physical activity participation. However, within group variability was high and a proportion of participants (14%) spent more than an hour each day in light manual work. These findings reveal that proxy recording of physical activity behaviour provides meaningful data and suggests that, as with the general community, only a proportion of this population was sedentary. However, comparison between the findings of this study and the available population data indicates that participants were less active than the general community.
Understanding care, welfare and community: a reader
- Editors:
- BYTHEWAY Bill, et al
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 374p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Care, welfare and community are three key concepts in contemporary social policy. This reader covers a wide range of topics associated with them and relevant to the delivery of care and support to adults. Groups covered include people with mental health problems, homeless people, older people, people with learning difficulties and people with impairments. The focus throughout is on how policies and practice can be developed appropriately and sensitively through an understanding of current issues.
Meeting the housing needs of people with intellectual disabilities: AHURI research and policy bulletin
- Authors:
- BOSTOCK Lisa, et al
- Publisher:
- Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Melbourne, VIC
This Australian report aimed to predict the effect on the housing market of the deinstitutionalisation of institutions for intellectually disabled people. It also aimed to assess how effectively and appropriately the housing needs of people with intellectual disabilities were being met in the community
The trouble with kids: an account of problems experienced with local children by people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WHITTELL Bridget, RAMCHARAN Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28(1), March 2000, pp.21-24.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Recent research carried out in North Wales which has been funded by the Wales Office for Research and Development has focused attention on the everyday lives of a small number of people with learning disabilities living in the community. Although many positive stories and experiences have emerged, negative incidents of abuse and victimisation have also been experienced by the majority of participants. This article concentrates on incidents of abuse and victimisation which have involved children as the perpetrators, drawing upon the experiences of a married couple who participated in this research.
Tagging: a technology for care services?
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 40p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper providing a discussion of the legal and ethical issues relating to the development and use of electronic tagging of people receiving some form of community care and support, including older people and people with learning difficulties.
Round pegs in round holes: a social work care management service for 'vulnerable adults' in West Oxfordshire
- Author:
- GILDERS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Quality living
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.6.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how one social worker trod the fine line between respecting a client's wish to live independently while making sure that the move would not put him seriously at risk.
Adults at risk: procedural guidelines for professionals in relation to people with physical or sensory disability, mental illness, or learning difficulties (mental handicap)
- Author:
- GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Gloucestershire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 28p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Gloucester
Describes action to be taken when vulnerable adults, living in the community, are found to be living in circumstances which present an unacceptable level of danger and co-ordinated intervention by caring agencies is necessary.