Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Creador:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: Campaign for People with Mental Handicaps, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: Richardson, Ann, Ritchie, Jane, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: Department of Mental Health (University of Bristol) and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1986
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Porterfield, Jan, and Gathercole, Chris
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: Department of Mental Health (University of Bristol) and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creador:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: 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), ...

Creador:: Ward, Linda and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Planning for people is a series of pamphlets designed to share information gained from the experience of setting up and running a comprehensive community service for adults with mental handicap in South Bristol, using ordinary housing. They are intended to give an account of the Bristol development, and some discussion ...

Creador:: 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 ...

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