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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
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.
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.
The Independent Living Advocate project: final evaluation
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Spinal Injuries Association
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 54p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses the users' experiences of the service offered by the Independent Living Advocate and looks at how the innovative and empowering nature of the post can be continued and promoted.
No home from home
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled young people often have difficulty in creating an independent life away from their parents and residential care can seem to be their only option. Shows how the experience can often be bitter and demeaning; and a difficult situation to move away from, even when residential establishments support people's wishes to live independently. Concludes that a better understanding of what it is like in residential care is needed particularly in the light of government plans to consign people to such care if their personal assistance costs are more than five hundred pounds a week.
Independent living and community care: a disempowering framework
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(5), August 2004, pp.427-442.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The British disability movement has had significant achievements in its struggle for independent living. However, the current community care framework contains many barriers to independent living. This article sets out a conceptual framework for an understanding of independent living and provides an analysis of the barriers posed by the social care system. These range from financial incentives for placing disabled people in residential care, to a failure to address needs relating to employment, parenting and leisure. Disabling attitudes held by social services professionals about 'risk' and 'capacity' are also major barriers. It is clear that, unless the legislative framework is amended to include an entitlement to independent living, disabled people will continue to be denied their full human and civil rights.
Social exclusion and young disabled people with high levels of support needs
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 21(2), May 2001, pp.161-183.
- Publisher:
- Sage
There are significant differences between the concept of social exclusion adopted by the mainstream policy agenda and what social exclusion means to young disabled people, particularly those with high levels of support needs. Currently, the experiences and concerns of this group are not being heard in the arenas where policies are developed. The silence about their experiences masks an assumption that, to have high levels of support needs, means dependency and exclusion are inevitable. It is unlikely, therefore, that current initiatives to tackle social exclusion will address the experiences of these young disabled people as they grow into adulthood. In contrast, a human rights agenda offers greater opportunities to challenge the way young disabled people with high levels of support needs are "shut out" from society.
Community care or independent living
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report exploring some of the experiences of people with disabilities of receiving assistance from partners and other family members, in the form of statutory services and through the direct purchase of the help required. Raises issues for the implementation of community care policies at both local and national levels, including human and civil rights issues.
Independent lives?: community care and disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 199p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Draws on in-depth interviews with disabled people to explore the experience of receiving help with daily living activities. Covers: the development of community care policies and their application to disabled people; the ideas of the independent living movement; the debate on informal care; the experience of residential care, of being dependent on a partner or relatives for assistance and the experience of statutory services. Calls for policy-makers and professionals to recognise the civil and human rights of disabled people.
Our homes, our rights: housing, independent living, and physically disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Shelter
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 36p., tables, illus., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Identifies the extent to which local authorities are meeting the need for housing and support services amongst disabled people.