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Residential care for adults
- Author:
- KELLY Des
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 1997, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Describes how there are practices which can protect adults in residential settings from abuse, and prevent institutions from becoming dehumanising. Looks at how despite years of inquiry reports, they are still all too rare.
Recognizing abuse and neglect in people with severe cognitive and/or communication impairments
- Author:
- BALADERIAN Nora J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 9(2), 1997, pp.93-104.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article highlights the lack of information about protective services to the developmentally disabled population in the USA and lack of coordination between agencies serving people with developmental disabilities and those providing protective services. Discusses the signs and symptoms of abuse in the developmentally disabled population, the alternative communication strategies required when interviewing, and the special skills needed for case assessment. The author ends with a series of federal, state, and community level policy recommendations.
Violence and abuse in the lives of people with disabilities: the end of silent acceptance
- Author:
- SOBSEY Dick
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 466p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Looks at the nature of abuse of people with disabilities and why it occurs. Goes on to deal with: detecting instances where abuse may be occurring; identifying important risk factors of abuse; combating abuse by altering specific social conditions; helping to heal the consequences of abuse; and ending the harmful violence cycle within which people with disabilities can become trapped.