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An ordinary life lost to good intentions
- Author:
- STEELE Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(1), September 1994, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Explains how disabled people are often forced to renounce employment and to rely on state benefits.
On queue
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.4.94, 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Ever-increasing numbers of people waiting for occupational therapy in Newcastle resulted in the formation of a short term task force to tackle the problem. Finds out what measures were used.
Community care or independent living?
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 40, Summer 1994, pp.24-45.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community care policies are based on an ideology of dependency. This means that community care practice - in particular the changes in the Independent Living Fund and the way that statutory services are delivered - often constitutes a barrier to independent living. Research on the experience of receiving personal assistance with daily living activities found that receiving cash to pay for assistance enables disabled people to make the kinds of choices in their lives which non-disabled people take for granted
Reforming community care - a perspective from New Zealand
- Author:
- WATSON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Studies, 20(3), Autumn 1994, pp.374-378.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Looks at the experience of New Zealand in managing community care, in particular disability support services.
Personal services
- Authors:
- OLIVER Mike, ZARB Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.3.93, 1993, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The aim of personal assistance schemes is to enable more disabled people to live independently in the community, through the employment of support workers. The authors' research show that not only are service users given freedom and power through these schemes but, as demonstrated by the examples from Greenwich personal assistance costs less than existing services.
Achievable goals
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.2.93, 1993, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author in her research, looked at the experience of people with physical disabilities in the community. She found that community care practice can be restrictive and create dependency, but also discovered the benefits of genuine independence, when that is achieved.
Home and dry
- Author:
- MAITLAND Nan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.2.93, 1993, p.24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author, co-winner of last year's Isabel Schwartz Travel Fellowship, is pioneering homesharing for disabled people in the UK. The concept of homesharing which is well-established in America and Canada involves the house-holder providing accommodation in exchange for help and someone in the house at night. Describes the author's visits to the American National Shared Housing Resource Centre (NSHRC) and the Share and Care project in Canada where she studied their techniques and looks at the homesharing that has been achieved in the UK so far.
Advocating true reform
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.2.93, 1993, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Community care reform has meant loss of access to Independent Living Fund grants. Looks at the success of an independent living advocate at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and considers why community care reforms may lead to greater institutionalisation for many.
Key task 1: criteria motives
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.1.93, 1993, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that needs-led assessment should not be a disguise for resource-led assessment rationed by criteria.
Housing, support and community: choices and strategies for adults with disabilities: vol.2
- Editors:
- RACINO Julie Ann, et al
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 394p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Presents current strategies in the United States for supporting disabled people to enable them to live in their own homes. Includes chapters on: approaches to housing and support; choices and decision making; changing roles of support organisations; community housing options and strategies; and the state role in housing and support. Also contains case studies, and chapters by service users, providers, and staff.