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A sheltered start
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Caring Times, March 1996, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on the newly opened home, Mali Jenkins in the West Midlands, which is the first specialist residential unit in the UK for people with Parkinson's disease.
The residential home - what difference does it make? Comparing the public systems of care for the elderly and disabled in two Swedish municipalities
- Author:
- LAGERGREN M.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(1), January 1993, pp.25-32.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Two municipalities in Sweden - Solna and Sigtuna - have taken part in a project (the ASIM project) aimed at developing a system for monitoring and analysing the public system of long-term care and assistance for elderly and disabled people. The two municipalities have chosen different alternatives in the question of residential homes. In Solna they have been retained and in Sigtuna they have been converted into sheltered housing. By separating the clients into different classes of dependence using the ASIM assessment, it is shown that in Solna, compared with Sigtuna, fewer of the most dependent clients are in long-term hospital care and fewer of the high-medium category are in domiciliary care. The data were used to calculate the distribution of clients and the average dependence on the different levels of care if Solna were to apply the care pattern of Sigtuna and vice versa.
Relaxed route to independence
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 6.3.92, 1992, pp.13-14.
Describes care philosophy and practice at Dolphin Court, a residential home for disabled people which aims to foster their independence.
PSSRU/CHE survey of private and voluntary residential care and nursing homes
- Authors:
- DARTON Robin, WRIGHT Ken
- Journal article citation:
- PSSRU Bulletin, 8, October 1991, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Reports on a surveys carried out among private and voluntary homes and local authority residential homes, comparing characteristics of residents, dependency levels, and the relation between resident characteristics and variations in fees charged.
A door of one's own
- Author:
- HATCHETT Will
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.4.90, 1990, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
1st Key is the Spastics Society's ambitious plan to close down all of its larger residential units by 1995.
Enabling users to control their own lives
- Authors:
- BAILEY D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 9.3.89, 1989, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
A group of residential managers explain their philosophy of ensuring users are free to exercise their rights.
A fair slice of the cake
- Author:
- FIEDLER B.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.2.88, 1988, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the work of the Living Options Project and the lack of local authority provision for severely disabled people.
Tiny trust, big dreams
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 3.6.94, 1994, p.12.
Looks at the work of the May Trust run by parents of children with learning and/or physical disabilities who were brought up in Camphill communities.
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.
Best of both worlds
- Author:
- BURKE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 13.6.91, 1991, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Describes the use of family respite care, in which rather than the handicapped child of a family being taken to a respite care unit, the whole family moved into the unit to receive 24-hour support.