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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.
Guidelines for independent living schemes
- Author:
- LONDON BOROUGHS DISABILITY RESOURCE TEAM
- Publisher:
- London Boroughs Disability Resource Team
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidelines designed as tools for discussion and local planning. For use by local authorities, disabled people, and operators and users of independent living schemes.
Choosing where you live
- Author:
- SCOPE
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Getting one's own home can be a long and complicated process for disabled people, but there are staff and organisations that will give them support, help and advice.
Network of care
- Authors:
- FITTON Pat, WILLSON Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.11.95, 1995, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Providing care for two women with multiple disabilities who want to live in their own home can be a difficult and daunting task. Describes the process and the success of a pioneering project.
Victoria find her roots
- Authors:
- FITTON Pat, WILLSON Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(1), July 1995, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The authors describe their experiences of finding a permanent home in the community for their profoundly disabled daughters.
Evaluating smart home technology in the Finnish context
- Author:
- HORELLI Lisa
- Publisher:
- STAKES. National Research and Development centre for Welfare and Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- Helsinki
Evaluation of how new technology can expand the scope of independent living for disabled people and older people.
Leaving home: the housing aspirations of young disabled people
- Author:
- DEAN Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(2), June 2003, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on research exploring the housing experiences and aspirations of young disabled people in Scotland. Thirty disabled people aged 18 to 34 were interviewed. Twenty-one lived with parents and nine independently. Interviewees were asked about their current housing situation, housing career and future housing aspirations. Results found that those who leave the family home in crisis experience several housing moves before settling; those who leave in a planned way tend to stay in their first home. Young people aspiring to leave the parental home are limited to a social housing tenancy, due to their economic circumstances and a lack of knowledge of other choices. Concludes that social care professionals need to pay closer attention to assessing housing aspirations and helping young people consider all options. The research was carried out by the Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies Glasgow and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Disability and transition to adulthood: achieving independent living
- Authors:
- HENDEY Nicola, PASCALL Gillian
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 47p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Both government and the disability movement advocate independent living for disabled adults. However, research has shown that young people growing up with disability face problems leaving the family home, and accessing housing, education, employment and income to meet their needs. The study examines what difficulties they faced in transition to adulthood and what helped them achieve this.
Thwarted by her mother?
- Authors:
- LAMPERT James, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.11.01, 2001, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A multidisciplinary panel consider the case of a women with cerebal palsy, whose mother does not want her to move out and live independently.
Popping in helping out
- Author:
- MACDONALD Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many people with special needs would not want to give up their home, but find practicalities of looking after it very difficult. Suggests that an independent tenancy with support visits may be the answer.