Evaluating the Impact of a Move to Ordinary Housing

Evans, Gerry; Todd, Stuart; Blunden, Roger; Porterfield, Jan; Ager, Alastair

doi:10.1179/bjms.1987.003

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“…Acknowledging the typical imprecision of timings within diary records (Emerson 1985; Evans et al . 1987), analysis of the number of activities engaged in by clients may usefully be complemented by considering the time spent on specified activities over the 7‐day period.…”

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Moving Home: Social Integration for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Resettling into Community Provision

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Myers

Kerr

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The present study examined levels of social integration for individuals resettling into community provision following the phased closure of Gogarburn Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, and the personal and service‐related characteristics which were influential on such integration. The study sample comprised 76 out of 95 individuals consecutively discharged over a 19‐month period. Post‐move data were collected between 6 and 9 months after community resettlement. At this time, mean ‘quality of life’ scores, established using the Life Experiences Checklist (LEC), were broadly equivalent to those reported from previous reprovisioning studies in the UK. However, scores in the domains of Relationships and Freedom remained well below general population norms. A pre‐move to post‐move comparison across the domains of the LEC suggested that the greatest impact of reprovisioning was in the areas of physical quality of residential provision (with overall standards above general population norms) and personal freedoms. Index of Community Involvement (ICI) scores showed a general increase in community presence, although activities requiring a high degree of personal autonomy remained infrequent. Social contacts recorded through diaries suggested a heavy bias towards contacts with staff and other service users as opposed to general community contacts (e.g. neighbours and shop workers). On average, over half the time spent outwith the home was in specialist or segregated service settings. For 18 individuals, there were losses or no gains in community involvement pre‐move to post‐move. A majority of these individuals were elderly. These findings are discussed in the context of policy targeting community participation, and the need for strengthening service features which encourage higher levels of social integration.

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Moving Home: Social Integration for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Resettling into Community Provision

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“…Evans et al . (1987) , Blunden (1988) and Williams & Tyne (1988) can all be seen as examples of research based on normalization.…”

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“…This body of research features several common themes, for example: 1 researchers were generally advocates of normalization and explicit about their commitment; 2 the overwhelming focus was research into services for people with learning difficulties for an audience of service planners and providers; 3 research was evaluative and prescriptive, and used normalization as a yardstick against which quality issues were measured; and 4 an assumption was made that people with learning difficulties supported the goals of normalization, although their views were rarely canvassed directly. Evans et al (1987), Blunden (1988) and Williams & Tyne (1988) can all be seen as examples of research based on normalization.…”

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Emergence of participatory methodology in learning difficulty research: understanding the context

Chappell

2000

Brit J Learn Disabil

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The past few years have seen the development of an important debate over methodology in disability research. The rise of emancipatory and participatory methodologies has meant that disabled people are making increasing demands to be included in the research process. The present paper will examine this debate and its implications for learning difficulty research. The article will discuss the reasons why participatory methodology is gaining greater acceptance than emancipatory methodology among learning difficulty researchers by examining the position of participatory research in the methodological traditions of social research into learning difficulty.

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“…see Davis 1972; Scambler & Hopkins 1986; Alonzo & Reynolds 1995; Carricaburu & Pierret 1995). In addition, the work of staff has been viewed as a significant factor in providing people with intellectual disability with a social presence ( Evans et al 1987 ; Evans & Murcott 1990; Todd et al 1990 ; Grant et al 1995 ; Ramcharan et al 1997 ), but little research on their work in this domain exists.…”

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“…relatives and/or paid carers. The work of care staff has been seen as crucial in providing people with intellectual disability a social presence ( Evans et al 1987 ; Evans & Murcott 1990; Todd et al 1990 ). Nevertheless, there is little research on the nature of the role staff play in facilitating community presence and participation, and their public or social roles are surely worthy of some study.…”

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Working in the public and private domains: staff management of community activities for and the identities of people with intellectual disability

Todd

2000

J intellect Disabil Res

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In addition to describing how the concept of stigma continues to be a pervasive influence in encounters between people with intellectual disability and others, the present study suggests that the management of this situation has passed into the control of care staff. An ethnographic study of young adults and community relationships suggests that the activities of staff are crucial in shaping the social profile of people with intellectual disability. The views of care staff about the taken-for-granted rights which characterize presence and participation in the community domain encourage them to adopt a semi-insulation approach to their work. Staff extend this approach by adopting information control strategies to conceal important information from students. The present author argues that there is a need for on-going research into staff activity in the community domain.

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Evaluating the Impact of a Move to Ordinary Housing

Cited by 16 publications

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Moving Home: Social Integration for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Resettling into Community Provision

Moving Home: Social Integration for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Resettling into Community Provision

Emergence of participatory methodology in learning difficulty research: understanding the context

Working in the public and private domains: staff management of community activities for and the identities of people with intellectual disability

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