People with learning difficulties and very high support needs are at the forefront of service providers and commissioners' thinking. However, there are presently few solutions to providing them with opportunities. "Unlocking the future" explores ways in which services need to change to provide this group of people with lifestyles based ...
This report describes environment and health in London using data that are publicly available. The authors have drawn on current international knowledge of the links between environment and health. The key points they make are that inner London is worse off than outer London, with higher unemployment, poorer housing, more ...
This report is drawn from two seminars attended by frontline practitioners and others working in health, housing and social care held at the King's Fund in February and April 1999. Participants discussed their views of current treatment, care and support of older people, and what they would want for their ...
Following a seminar for front-line health, housing and social care professionals, King's Fund staff were invited to take part in an afternoon event on 13 April 1999 to consider current care arrangements and provision for older people; and to discuss their thoughts on what they would want should they need ...
Better Futures was a two year project which focussed on improving the quality of life of people with serious and long-term mental health problems. During the period 1992-94 the King's Fund Centre funded a programme of development work in five localities in England and Wales: Clwyd, Leeds, Salford, Swindon and ...
The report attempts to review the main issues surrounding the funding and management of units providing dialysis services to people suffering from end-stage renal failure in the UK for the benefit of health service managers, renal physicians and other staff. The objective is to review the experience and information currently ...
In May 1985, five young men aged between 18 and 21 moved out of Brockhall Hospital (a long stay hospital for people with learning difficulties) to take up the tenancy of their own home in Blackburn. They moved with 9.5 whole-time equivalent health service staff to help them to learn ...
The conference addressed the problem of how to move towards a better quality of residential services for adults with learning difficulties. Ways of measuring the quality of life were discussed, including a `checklist of needs' to be used when assessing a residential service. From visits to 100 places where people ...
This book has been produced to convey the idea that people with learning difficulties are entitled to dignified, homelike surroundings which will give them fuller enjoyment and will also help them to learn how to live. Most of the ideas are not original, but they stem from a general awakening ...