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Supporting older families: making a real difference
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older families are a priority group for support, but it is important that their needs are linked in to the mainstream agendas of services for people with learning disabilities, older people and carers generally. It is important that we make sure that older families have their needs met now, and are supported to remain together for as long as they wish whilst planning for the future with confidence. However, it is equally important that we get things right for older families now so that others who are growing older do not face the same anxieties, uncertainty and fears that so many older family carers have lived with for decades.
Witnesses to change: families, learning difficulties and history
- Editors:
- ROLPH Sheena, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 335p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This book shows how learning disabilities have impacted on family life and relationships and how this has varied across the country. It also reveals how public attitudes have shifted considerably from one in which learning disabilities were seen as a “mental deficiency” to a more enlightened attitude which recognised that people with learning disabilities have rights.
The HARC challenging behaviour project: report 4: experience and views of parents caring for people with learning disabilities living in the family home
- Authors:
- KIEMAN Chris, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Hester Adrian Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
In 1994 the Department of Health commissioned the Hester Adrian Research Centre at the University of Manchester and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York to undertake a series of projects to investigate aspects of challenging behaviour shown by people with learning disability. These projects extended workv previously undertaken at the Hester Adrian Research Centre. In particular they built upon a study of the prevaence of challenging behaviour in the areas served by seven District Health Authorities in the North West of England in 1988.
Place in Europe
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.01.05, 2005, pp.46-47.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Phil Madden, Director of service development at the Home Farm Trust, describes the organisations involvement in a one year project 'Families In' funded by the European Commission. The project involved partners from Sweden, Finland, Spain, Belgium and Hungary. He describes the challenges and rewards of the project.
Families leading planning: young people and families planning for their transition
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Soundtrack, 30, September 2004, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
Highlights the person-centred planning tool developed by National Development Team and Helen Sanderson & Associates, specifically for families and young people with learning difficulties involved in transistion. The tool was developed with a funding grant from the Department of Health. Also describes other outcomes from the grant including two launch days and a website.
Developing local area co-ordination in Scotland: supporting individuals and families in their own communities
- Author:
- CURTICE Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(1), January 2003, pp.38-44.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Following its development and evaluation in Western Australia, local area co-ordination (LAC) has been included as an integral part of the strategy for people with learning disabilities in Scotland. Local Area Coordinators (LACs) work directly with individuals and families to help them find the information and local supports they need. This article looks at the background to the adoption of Local Area Coordinators in Scotland.
'Is it for them or us?'
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.7.92, 1992, p.15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Offers guidelines for involving people with learning difficulties in conferences. Also lists the needs of family members and specific community groups to promote the active inclusion of everyone at a conference.
An overview of short term care services for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- STALKER Kirsten
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 4, 1992, pp.25-30.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Summarises some of the main features of short term care services, including their value base, range and type of facilities available, and organisational aspects. The likely implications of recent legislation for the development of short term care are then discusses, and reference is made to family support services in Europe.
Home to home: a review of family-based respite care in Dyfed
- Authors:
- SWIFT Paul, RANT Gordon, MCGRATH Morag
- Publisher:
- University College of North Wales. Centre for Social Policy Research and Develop
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 166p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Bangor
Review of a project for people with learning difficulties run by Barnardo's in Dyfed.
What we need: a survey of the needs of families caring for a member with a mental handicap in Kidderminster Health District
- Authors:
- KIDDERMINSTER AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL, KIDDERMINSTER AND DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Kidderminster and District Community Health Council/Kidderminster and District H
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 71p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Results of a survey of the needs of 136 families.