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Creatore:: Informal Caring Programme (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Dale, Naomi, and Society of Parents Helping in Education
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: This booklet is published for S.O.P.H.I.E. (Society of Parents Helping in Education) by the King's Fund. It accompanies a video `Shared Concern' which tackles the difficulties doctors experience when they face the task of informing parents that their baby or young child has a disability. S.O.P.H.I.E. believes this video and ...

Creatore:: King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and National Health Service Training Authority
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: 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 ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1987
Abstract:: Since 1980 a group of workers organising family-based relief care schemes has met on a regular basis, to look at particular aspects of respite care, and to organise occasional workshops. Although the schemes represented by the group vary widely, features of respite care offered by families have emerged, with workers ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Keeble, Ursula
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Under the terms of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, social services departments are required to help with the provision of aids to daily living for disabled persons discharged from hospital, and with adaptations to their homes. The study aims to establish the extent to which social services ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Judy Heumann is currently with the World Institute on Disability, a US policy organisation which works on both national and international issues. During November 1983, she was in England to meet disabled people in Hampshire, Manchester, Nottingham and London, where Centres for Independent Living are being developed. This is a ...

Creatore:: Centre on Environment for the Handicapped, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The nine people about whom this book is written all have severe disabilities yet they have rejected the idea that the only possibility for them is a place in a residential institution and have established homes of their own. The book challenges policy makers, architects and people working in statutory ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This study day, organised by the King's Fund, took as its starting point chapter 10 of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (the Warnock Report). Main problems were that too few further and higher educational opportunities exist for school leavers ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This report describes aspects of the work of the Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes and looks particularly at the roles of the European Economic Community, the Department of the Environment and the Crossroads Housing and Supporting Care Project. The D.O.E. assisted in the development of guidelines for local authority architects on ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Hardy, Shirley J.
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: The conference addressed the problems of identifying the client group usually described as "younger physically disabled" and of providing alternative and appropriate forms of accommodation and care services for them. Eight presentations of different approaches to these problems were given during the proceedings.

Creatore:: Institute for Consumer Ergonomics (Loughborough University of Technology), King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Cooper, S., and Feeney, R. J.
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: This conference arose from investigatory work carried out by the Institute for Consumer Ergonomics on the system of developing and manufacturing aids and equipment for handicapped people in this country. The conference centred on the provision of adequate, suitable and effective aids to reduce the effects of various forms of ...

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