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Housing circumstances and preferences of wheelchair users: looking at new options
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 2(1), March 1999, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes how the John Groom Housing Association provides housing for people with disabilities. The association commissioned the Housing and Support Partnership to carry out a national survey of wheelchair users to get an up to date picture of their housing position and to explore the possibilities of making more use of shared ownership. This article reports on their findings.
Access to health: final report
- Author:
- HANNAH Pete
- Publisher:
- Health Action Zone Fellowship
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
The people with physical disabilities interviewed generally seemed to see health and well being as central to ideas of independence. Lack of access to ‘wellness services’ was a social barrier. Being prone to “secondary conditions” , those interviewed mainly viewed maximising health and function as of primary importance to their quality of life. There was a strong sense that this was not being addressed by current provision. Information and education, especially for those who have lived with disability all their lives is lacking. Repeat hospitalisations had a profound negative effect on the confidence and sense of independence of those interviewed, often setting back work already achieved by Suggestions such as a community-based healthscreening nurse for people with a physical disability or multi-disciplinary teams, including health workers, should be explored. Further research is needed to explore the benefits of disabled people striving to gain or maintain ‘a life of their own’ but also for the profound cost-saving implications of keeping these people healthy, out of hospital and independent.
Housing matters: national evidence relating to disabled children and their housing
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Bryony, OLDMAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 45p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report presents evidence to support and inform change in policy and practice to ensure that the housing needs of disabled children and their families are better met. The report challenges traditional notions of housing need, calling for a reconceptualisation that embraces all impairments, focuses on child-centred needs and extends beyond the 'four walls' of the family home. The findings of the report are discussed and interpreted within the context of current policy and practice.
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.
OUTSET survey of disability in the London Borough of Greenwich
- Authors:
- HUMM Jayne, HAMMOND Judith, MONTGOMERY Scott
- Publisher:
- Outset
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 89p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The demography of disability in Greenwich, housing and everyday living.
How does the community care?: public attitudes to community care in Scotland
- Authors:
- CURTICE Lisa, PETCH Alison
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
As part of the 2001 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, the Scottish Executive funded a module of 40 questions on the attitudes of people in Scotland to a range of community care issues. Interviews were completed with 1605 individuals across Scotland. Three quarters of respondents felt comfortable about living next door to a frail older person and more than half about living next door to a person with a learning disability. Less than half, however, felt comfortable about living next door to a person with mental illness or with dementia. Respondents were strongly in favour of individuals with support needs living in the community rather than in care homes or hospitals. This view was most common for a person with a learning disability and least common (but still the majority) for a person with dementia. Most people interviewed thought that a person with a mental illness or a learning disability should not serve on a jury. Support needs, it was felt, should in the main be met by paid workers. The exception was for the person with a learning disability needing to be accompanied to a club where the potential contribution of family members and volunteers was cited. A substantial majority considered the funding of support to be the responsibility of the government. Respondents with personal experience of care were even more likely than others to take this view. There was strong support for individuals remaining within their own homes when this was their wish, even when this was a more expensive option. Only a fifth of respondents thought that those able to pay should be able to access better quality provision, suggesting strong support for equity. Respondents expressed a willingness to pay higher taxes to generate funds for increased expenditure on health, support for older people and pensions. The top priorities for additional government spending on older people were home helps, special housing provision, and district nurses.
An ageing population
- Author:
- FAMILY POLICY STUDIES CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 7p., tables, diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
A fact sheet examining the trends of the ageing population and reviewing the social and economic characteristics of elderly people in Britain.