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Supporting families with two or more disabled children
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Around 7,500 families in the UK have two or more children with severe impairments, representing well over 15,000 children. The partiicular experiences, needs and circumstances of these families have generally been overworked by research and social services. A detailed qualitative study involving 24 families explored their ways of managing from day-to-day and identified the tupes of service support that were most helpful to them. Summarise the research conducted by the researchers of the University of York.
Personal assistance for students with disabilities in HE: the experience of the University of London
- Author:
- PARKER Viv
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.483-504.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the experience of students using personal assistants from the University of East London. The issues explored were: funding; the employer-employee role and employment matters; power and authority relationships; personal, family and professional relationships with assistants, other students, tutors and staff, and access to non-academic activities and the management of assistants.
Outcomes in community care practice number six: outcomes of social care for disabled people and carers
- Authors:
- BAMFORD Claire, QURESHI Hazel, NICHOLAS Elinor, VERNON Ayesha
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 44p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report summarises the first phase of a research and development project on the outcomes of social care for younger disabled people (adults aged eighteen to sixty four) and their carers. The aims of the first phase were: to identify the desired outcomes of social care from the perspectives of a range of stakeholders; to explore preferred ways of collecting outcome information in routine practice; and to develop an understanding of the specific local context and identify opportunities for implementing an outcomes framework in the authority.
Your rights: a guide to money benefits for older people; 1999-2000
- Author:
- WEST Sally
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 166p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains sections on: pensions, widows' benefits and retirement; income related (means-tested) benefits; benefits for people with disabilities; other financial benefits; and further information.
The traumatic onset of disabling injury in a marriage partner: self-reports of the experience by able-bodied spouses
- Author:
- LEVOR K.D.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 35(2), 1999, pp.186-195.
This article explores changes in emotion and daily function reported by partners of disabled people. In addition it investigates the adjustments experienced by the able-bodied spouse with the intention of identifying the needs and available support for this subgroup.
Leaving school special: the next step and future aspirations
- Author:
- MITCHELL Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(6), November 1999, pp.753-769.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper focuses upon the transition experiences of disabled young people, a group frequently hidden within discussions of 'youth'. It initially discusses young people's next educational/vocational step after school leaving in relation to the traditional idea of a school to work transition. Taking a broader approach the paper then focuses on the complex concept of a more independent 'adult' status from the perspective of the study's young people and their parents/carers.
Invisible link
- Author:
- GATFORD Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.10.99, 1999, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Parents of children with severe disabilities or complex health needs are socially excluded group deserving better support. Looks at the problems they encounter and suggests some solutions.
Children as carers: the impact of parental illness and disability on children's caring roles
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, BECKER Saul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 21(3), August 1999, pp.303-320.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The nature and extent of young caring in the UK continues to be a feature of a growing number of research programmes motivated by a children and carer's rights philosophy. This paper examines the arguments put forward by medical researchers, by those proposing a social model of disability and by those who have specifically investigated the conditions and experiences of young carers. A 'whole family approach' is proposed, which is responsive to both parents and children.
Case threatens direct payments
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.8.99, 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An industrial tribunal recently ruled that local authorities - not disabled people - are the employers of personal assistants. Asks what this will mean for direct payments schemes and disabled people's independence.
Negotiating access to community care assessments: perspectives of front-line workers, people with a disability and carers
- Authors:
- RUMMERY Kirstein, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(4), July 1999, pp.296-300.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents evidence from a study of how people with a disability and their carers gain access to community care assessments following the implementation of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. Suggests that there are several barriers in negotiating access to assessments, including lack of information.