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Housing adaptations: understanding their worth
- Author:
- HEYWOOD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(4), November 2001, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on recent project which has been seeking to assess the effectiveness of housing adaptations from the point of view of the resident. The research was carried out in 1999-2000 by teams of professionals (housing, environmental health and occupational therapy staff) working in partnerships with a research co-ordinator and with two disabled researchers. The study found that adaptations improve the quality of life of the people whose homes are adapted, and they deliver on a number of key government objectives.
Supporting people with acquired brain injury in their own homes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Connections was established in 1993 to provide flexible support to enable people with acquired brain injuries to live in ordinary housing instead of a hospital or supported accommodation and to develop community links. This evaluation set out to establish whether or not the Connectiins model satisfactorily supported people to live in the community, and to identify the key features of the service.
Housing, disabled children and their families
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The majority of disabled children live at home on a permanent basis with their families. They have been identified as a group which 'slips through the net' in terms of meeting their housing needs. This finding describes how researchers at the University of York have carried out the first in-depth study of the impact of housing on the lives of disabled children and their families.
The effectiveness of housing adaptations
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Public spending on housing adaptations - permanent or fixed alterations to make homes more suitable for disabled occupants and their families - amounts to more than £220 million every year, and both numerical demand and unit costs are growing. This research examined the effectiveness of these investments from the point of view of those who have to live with them. Presents the findings of the study.
Low intensity support services: a systematic literature review
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Despite some recent policy acknowledgement of the potential role of low intensity support services in assisting people to live independently, community care resources continue to be targeted mainly on high level, often crisis, interventions. Partly because of this continuing focus, there has been little consideration of the evidence of the value of low intensity services. The Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, has now undertaken a systematic research literature review of the effectiveness of such services in enabling people to live independently in ordinary housing. Presents the findings.
Disabling homes: a study of the housing needs of disabled people in Cornwall
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(1), 1995, pp.71-85.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The study was an evaluation of housing need of disabled people who were wheelchair users through a process of consumer consultation. It was concerned to find out the extent and nature of that need whilst also testing out consultation through the use of research methods in comparison with a non-consultative approach taken by the local authorities. The nature of need was found to be qualitatively different to that found through the study of normative needs. A significant number of disabled people were being made more dependent by their housing and this was being reinforced by the agencies that were intended to help them. In particular, the failure to consult disabled people was leading the local authorities to make inappropriate plans for new build housing while the major need for adaptations was being undermined by their operation of the Disabled Facilities Grant. The findings support the call from other writers that the solutions to housing problems will only come through viewing disability as a civil rights issue.
Funding and managing the adaptation of owner occupied homes for people with physical disabilities
- Authors:
- MACKINTOSH Sheila, LEATHER Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(4), July 1994, pp.229-239.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Adapted housing is an important element of community care for people with physical disabilities. Draws on the findings of several research studies to assess the implementation of the new disabled facilities grant introduced in 1990.