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Older people with learning difficulties leaving institutional care - a case of double jeopardy
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol, RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(2), March 1996, pp.125-150.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
People with learning difficulties are now surviving into old age and more and more of them are being resettled from long-stay hospitals. This article examines some of the key barriers facing, and dilemmas involved in, the provision of community-based services to this newly emerging user group. Recent field research on older people with learning difficulties who have been resettled into the community is used to illustrate the challenges facing service providers. Particular reference is made to the impact of age discrimination and traditional differences between service specialisms. Shows that both official definitions of need in old age and the aspirations of the service responses to those needs have been artificially constructed in very narrow terms, especially when compared with the principled approach to service provision for younger people with learning difficulties.
Uncertain futures: people with learning difficulties and their ageing family carers
- Authors:
- WALKER Carol, WALKER Alan
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Provides an overview of research, policy and practice relating to service responses to adults with learning difficulties living at home with older family carers. Highlights issues raised by service users, carers and service providers and finds a broad consensus on what is wrong and what needs to be done. Argues that future needs of this group of people are predictable and that there is an urgent need for service providers to work with families to provide the necessary and planning which will replace uncertain futures with security and peace of mind.
Levelling the odds
- Author:
- WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.5.96, 1996, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The needs of older people with learning difficulties are often overlooked. The author argues that if service providers can find ways of meeting the challenge, the can lead full lives.