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Mental health and the experience of housing problems involving rights
- Authors:
- PLEASENCE Pascoe, BALMER Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- People Place and Policy Online, 2(1), 2008, Online only
- Publisher:
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
The incidence of housing problems involving rights is linked closely to long-term illness/disability and broader social exclusion. Drawing on data from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey this article explores the extent to which housing rights problems and mental illness co-occur, and the causal connections between them. After controlling for a range of social and demographic predictors, significant associations were found between housing rights problems and mental illness. It was also found that housing rights problems were often reported to lead to stress related illness. It is argued that effective co-ordination of mental health and housing rights advice services is likely to improve both health and justice outcomes.
Housing provision and the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Editors:
- GARWOOD Sue, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet and accompanying information sheets are intended to offer information about the law in relation to those likely to lack capacity concerning arrangements for housing.
Contracting arrangements for extra care housing
- Authors:
- MILLER Lawrence, MURPHY Wendy, BRADY Sian
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet explores the contractual frameworks that are required in Extra Care housing. It looks at contracting from both purchaser and provider perspectives and provides guidance on the contractual issues to consider in relation to housing management, support and care provision within an Extra Care housing setting.
A framework for the development of housing services for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- McCOLLAM Allyson
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(3), September 1998, pp.6-13.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Trends in housing policy and housing development over the last ten years have created a growing tension between the community care housing agenda and wider housing policies. In mental health, as the pattern of service provision across the UK has moved away from the more traditional institutional models of care, there continues to be an urgent need to develop stable and sustainable housing provision linked to effective support based on individual needs. Describes a framework for the development of housing services for people with mental health problems in Scotland.
Getting healthcare, housing support, and community care set up for prisoners who will need it on release
- Authors:
- EDGAR Kimmett, RICKFORD Dora, TALBOT Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 179, September 2008, pp.16-19.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
Prisoners with mental health problems or learning disabilities are more likely to re-offend, or to be abused or exploited by others, if they do not get an aftercare package of health, housing and community care services. This article highlights the legislation and policies that oblige local authorities to assess the needs of vulnerable people, prior to release from prison.
Mental health and housing: a crisis on the streets
- Author:
- GLOVER Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 21(4), 1999, pp.327-337.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article analyses whether the failures in community care can be derived from failures in the provision of housing owing to the underestimation of its role in the community care process. Asks whether community care overlooked the basic housing needs of discharged patients rendering impossible any effective benefits which could have been achieved from the community care policy and whether the law relating to housing rights failed to ensure an adequate framework for care in the community, thereby exacerbating the problems faced by released psychiatric patients.
Supported housing for the mentally ill elderly: implementation and consumer choice
- Author:
- SOHNG Sung Sil Lee
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 32(2), April 1996, pp.135-148.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In the United States the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 was aimed at resolving the problem of thousands of mentally ill nursing home residents who either did not require this level of care or whose mental health needs were not being met in a nursing home. Given the context of the OBRA mandates and the growing older population the development of innovative alternatives to nursing homes is critical. This article examines the experience of one urban county in Washington state providing supported housing for the OBRA - affected mentally ill elderly.
Law for Northern Ireland social workers
- Editor:
- WHITE Ciaran
- Publisher:
- Gill and Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 352p.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Practical text aimed at social workers, social work students and all related statutory and voluntary workers coming into contact with Northern Ireland law in a social work context.
The law and elderly people
- Authors:
- McDONALD Ann, TAYLOR Margaret E
- Publisher:
- Sweet and Maxwell
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 319p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One volume reference book on the law as it affects older people. Topics covered include: social services; housing; health services; welfare rights; wills and the formalities of death; and mental health.
With inclusion in mind: an easy read guide
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This booklet is aimed at people with a mental illness or learning disability. It describes the things that councils can do to make things better for them. In 2003, the Scottish Government made a new law called The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) ( Scotland ) Act 2003. The new law says that local councils must help anyone who has a mental illness or a learning disability get the best from life. Local councils should not provide separate services for people with learning disabilities or mental illnesses, but should make sure that they can use all their services. This booklet lists various ways in which council staff can help people in relation to: their home; their community; their work; their money; their family; their education; art and culture; volunteering; taking part; and their health.