Over the past few years the low take-up of services by black disabled people and their general absence from user involvement initiatives have become a source of concern. Evidence suggests that poor access to information, communication barriers and inappropriate services are all factors preventing black disabled people from having their ...
The information exchange is produced particularly for supporters and advisors of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services. This issue looks at involving people who have multiple disabilities.
The objectives of the Living Options Enquiry were: i) to identify the particular needs of the most highly dependent of disabled people and their carers, both as individuals and as family units; ii) to identify the role users want to take in the development of services. To this end the ...
This document bases its discussions on user participation on the experience gained from two and a half years' practical work between Living Options In Practice and eight multi-agency Practice Teams throughout England, which worked to create comprehensive disability service systems. The following elements are discussed in the context of the ...
Living Options in Practice believes that it is essential for all those who plan and provide disability services to review their work regularly. Based on the experience of the eight Practice Teams, `Tracking Success' proposes a systematic approach to testing that the best possible services are being developed for people ...
The Living Options In Practice project aims to help service planners and providers in statutory and voluntary agencies build effective and comprehensive services to meet the needs of people with severe physical and sensory disabilities. It has developed an outline of the elements that should be encompassed within a comprehensive ...
This the report of a one-day seminar, held on 28 November 1988 for those who use services for people with learning difficulties, physical disabilities, or long-term health problems. The aim was to explore ways in which services could make links with each other, perhaps crossing the traditional boundaries between different ...
This conference report looks at the provision of services for people with physical disabilities. This included insufficient resources; poorly trained professionals; a lack of coordination within and among state and voluntary care organisations; and the inability to take into account the wishes and experiences of those on the receiving end ...
This publication offers guidelines for statutory and voluntary agencies on the preconditions to and ingredients of a quality housing and care support service for physically disabled people. It presents case histories from the project research, and documents some of the innovative schemes and services that are helping disabled adults to ...
This report analyses the health and social support services presently available to people with physical disabilities in Britain within the wider framework of national, social and community care policy. It attempts to piece together a comprehensive picture of current provision from a wide variety of sources and stresses the need ...