Participants at this workshop included student nurses, Directors of Nurse Education and people with disabilities. The purpose of the discussion was to focus on the nursing process model of nursing care and how it responds to the needs of people with disabilities in general hospitals. The discussion was limited to ...
This workshop was arranged to bring together those who were at the leading edge of developing quality assurance in community care for people with learning difficulties, those with mental health problems, people with physical disabilities and frail elderly people. Three main issues were examined: the definition of quality assurance in ...
The NIMROD service is recognised as being to the forefront of the move towards community care. This book uses a case-study approach to illustrate the experiences of seven people with learning difficulties who use this service. The case studies are analysed in terms of a number of interwoven concepts: presence ...
This document explores the issues involved in providing effective community -based services for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours, and provides some suggestions for practical action. The values set out in An Ordinary Life are taken as a starting point and this document discusses how effective community services might ...
Building community describes 30 different services, which between them, are offering family support, alternative homes for children and a variety of housing. They are working towards integration in ordinary local patterns of education, employment and leisure. They believe that everyone with a mental handicap has a right to a valued ...
This paper is addressed to a wide range of people concerned with the provision of care for people with learning difficulties their families. It is the result of research among parents whose adult sons and daughters with learning difficulties live at home, and explores their perspectives on the eventual move ...
The papers that comprise this collection are the proceedings of a workshop organised by the Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, in May 1986. The workshop aimed to explore issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap. The papers are organised and presented ...
This project paper is a sequel to An Ordinary Working Life, and provides detailed accounts of a sample of schemes demonstrating how people with mental handicap, including some with severe handicap, can be integrated into ordinary work settings. It discusses the design of different schemes, with particular reference to job-finding ...
Since the publication of An Ordinary Life in 1980, the King's Fund has shared with a large and growing network of people across the country in efforts to develop comprehensive community-based services. Experience has underlined the importance of staff training in its broadest sense as a fundamental contribution to the ...
One of the aims of the conference was to discuss the issues raised in the King's Fund Project Paper no. 51 ` Advocacy : the UK and American experiences'. This paper is an account of the conference and includes a list of the participants (including contributors to the project paper), ...