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Home at last: how two young women with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities achieved their own home
- Authors:
- FITTON Pat, O'BRIEN Carol, WILLSON Jean
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 205p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Follows attempts to help two young women with disabilities achieve a home of their own, with 24 hour support. Two of the authors are their parents. Contains practical information for parents, social workers, and carers, on planning and financing, setting up a home support scheme, and making it work successfully. Gives an insight into the practical realities of new patterns of living in the community for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.
Mental health: a register of discontent
- Authors:
- POWELL Ronald, SCRAGG Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, March 1994, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Raises concern over the lead given to health authorities in registering 'dangerous' people with mental health problems as seriously underestimating the impact of social factors such as housing, poverty and the effects of a complex social environment on people with a serious mental health problem.
The demands on a caring community
- Author:
- HILLMAN J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 13.4.89, 1989, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the social policy implications of caring for severely mentally handicapped people in the community.
Changes in life-style for young adults with profound handicaps following discharge from hospital care into a "second generation" housing project
- Authors:
- BRATT A., JOHNSTON R.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 1(1), 1988, pp.49-74.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Evaluates the changes in terms of quality of life, increases in personal competence and integration into the community.
Commentary on “The personalisation challenge: personalisation for people with learning disabilities and behaviour described as challenging”
- Author:
- GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 19(1), 2014, pp.11-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on the themes of the paper by Lingard et al. on personalisation for people whose behaviour is described as challenging. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on recent reports and the author's experience to describe the context within which development projects are operating and the range of development that is required to support personalised solutions. Findings: There are plenty of resources available to support change; these have limited effect unless the local partners (councils, NHS bodies and others) work together to provide the conditions for success. Originality/value: Evidence is drawn together from a number of current sources. (Publisher abstract)
Thee day-care we can't desert
- Author:
- HENLEY Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, July 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author explains why he believes critics of day-service provisions for people with severe learning disabilities have got it wrong, with potentially negative consequences for users, carers and social workers. He traces the changes from structured day care provision to more community based alternatives, and calls for more debate on how realistic and appropriate services can be provided across the country before further changes to service provision take place.
Changing behaviour through relocation
- Author:
- MACLEOD Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 27.9.01, 2001, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at how a move into a community home has altered the behaviour of four people with learning disabilities.
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.
Disparities in service provision for people with learning difficulties living in the community: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
In the last twenty years there have been two major developments in the organisation and delivery of services to people with learning difficulties - segregated living in a long-stay hospitals is being replaced by community placements, and more people with learning difficulties are surviving into older age. A study based in the North West of 120 people living in the community, either with their families or informal care.
Life-sharing in East Lancashire
- Author:
- PILLING Doria
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 38, Summer 1995, pp.5-8.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Community care really can work for people with severe learning difficulties and life-sharing is a feasible option, for some people in some circumstances. Looks at what some those circumstances are.