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An opportunity lost: social services use of the Independent Living Transfer
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 80p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research report examining the use of the successor to the Independent Living Fund, a transitional funding arrangement designed to bridge the funding gap between the ILF and community care arrangements.
Making community care a reality: the Independent Living Fund 1988-1993
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation. Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Outlines the history and operation of the Independent Living Fund.
Taking care in the market: a study of agency homecare
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Independent Living Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 35p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Examines the market for domiciliary care in the East Midlands. Describes the independent sector services currently available to disabled people who are able to pay for them. Details user views of these services, and draws conclusions.
Independent living: a review
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Review of findings and experience from research about various aspects of independent living. Looks at issues such as: housing, personal assistance, advocacy, information, employment, and income maintenance. Also addresses the debate around cash payments for personal assistance.
A pot of money
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 17.11.94, 1994, p.11.
Current research by the Disablement Living Group into the way Independent Living Transfer is spent reveals a considerable amount of confusion over its origin and use.
End of the road for independence?
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.10.99, 1999, p.24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article examines the changing face of care for disabled people and argues that health and local authorities must work together to provide a flexible service which preserves user autonomy.
Work, rest and pay: the deal for personal assistance users
- Authors:
- KESTENBAUM Ann, CAVA Helena
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Explores the different factors that affect the decisions of disabled people who employ personal assistants and who want to work but find themselves left with little of their earnings above Income Support level after paying their assistants. Based on interviews with 42 disabled people. Ways forward in terms of policy changes are discussed in the conclusion.
Disability-related costs and charges for community care
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 76p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a project aiming to develop and recommend a basis for considering an individual's disability related costs, which would balance the need to take these outgoings into account when assessing that person's ability to pay community care charges against the need to minimise both extra local authority administration costs and the need for assessment procedures.
The state of independence
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.2.96, 1996, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether government proposals for direct payments to disabled people are as comprehensive and wide-ranging as they ought to be.
Cash for care: the experience of Independent Living Fund clients
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Independent Living Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 100p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Research report exploring what happens when disabled people are provided with the money to buy in their own care services, and in particular at services bought from a variety of private sources outside the statutory sector. Based on interviews with disabled people.