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Activities with developmentally disabled elderly and older adults
- Editor:
- KELLER M. Jean
- Publisher:
- Haworth
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 166p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Papers focussing on the growing number of elders with developmental disabilities and how to effectively plan and deliver activities with them.
Decision-making and mental incapacity: practice issues for professionals
- Author:
- PENHALE Bridget
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 5(3), 1991, pp.186-193.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Distinguishes between permanently incapable people and those who have become incapacitated and discusses the conflict between "best interests" and "substituted judgment" and the application of these approaches.
Edinvar Neighbour Support Housing: an evaluation of supported accommodation for physically disabled people, frail elderly people, and people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- FOSTER Kate, PORTER Mike
- Publisher:
- Edinvar Neighbour Support Housing/University of Edinburgh. Department of General
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 45p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Do it yourself
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.5.91, 1991, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Profiles a number of self-advocacy groups : the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People, People First, Survivors Speak Out, Standing Conference of Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens.
Edinvar neighbour support housing 1981-1991: an evaluation of an experiment in supported accommodation
- Authors:
- FOSTER Kate, PORTER Mike
- Publisher:
- Edinvar Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Mentally incapacitated adults and decision-making: an overview
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Law Commission
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper giving an overview of the civil law relating to mental incapacity, the present procedures available for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated people, their shortcomings and some of the options for reform. Mentally handicapped people, elderly people with a mental infirmity, mentally ill people and brain damaged or physically ill or handicapped people are included.
Residential accommodation for the elderly, younger physically handicapped and blind: year ended 31 March 1990
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 60p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Inter-professional collaboration and education: an annotated bibliography
- Authors:
- TOASE Mary, comp
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Bibliography of documents on inter-professional collaboration and education in primary health and community care. Professionals looked at are: people working in education; GP's; health visitors; nurses; occupational therapists; pharmacists; physiotherapists; psychiatrists; social workers; and speech therapists. Client groups include: addicts; children; older people; people with learning disabilities; and people with mental health problems.