Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Davies, Linda and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This study helps to fill some of the gaps in our information about the costs of the alternative patterns of residential support and about their effectiveness in providing choices for the users. Three contrasting styles of residential provision are evaluated - a local service based on ordinary housing; a long-stay ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...

Author:: Oswin, Maureen and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Between 1977 and 1981 the author visited over 100 places providing short-term care for children who are mentally handicapped and interviewed families whose children were receiving short-term care. This book describes the development of short-term residential care, who makes use of it, parents' reactions to and opinions of the services, ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The authors of this paper came together to study the development of comprehensive local residential services for mentally handicapped people. Although government policy had urged a move towards community-based services for mentally handicapped people, the numbers admitted to mental handicap hospitals for long-term care went up during the 1960s and ...

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Thomas, Derek, and Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped
Publication date:: 1978
Abstract:: 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 ...

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