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 ...
The aim of this project was to devise a profile which defines some aspects of agreed good practice. It is a tool of management devised by physiotherapy managers within the NHS for their own use. It is a yardstick for the managers to evaluate their own performance. It is a ...
The conference reported here was jointly sponsored by the King's Fund Centre and the D.H.S.S. to further explore established themes around the move of children from mental handicap hospitals. The specific aims were: to share experiences between those involved in moving children and young people out of hospital: to explore ...
Participants at this workshop included student nurses, Directors of Nurse Education and people with disabilities. The purpose of the discussion was to focus on the nursing process model of nursing care and how it responds to the needs of people with disabilities in general hospitals. The discussion was limited to ...
The conference was asked to confine its attention to three groups of people who might need asylum: adults with persistent major mental health problems including those problems specific to age and dementia; those with mental health problems and behavioural problems; people with aggressive or challenging behaviour. Having listened to evidence ...
The law relating to the Court of Protection is complicated and there are few useful books and articles about it that are readily available. Also the Court is changing. It was decided to invite a number of people to produce, brief, clear outlines of the law on a number of ...
The Long Term Care Team at the King's Fund Centre was concerned that there were difficulties facing some disabled people coming into contact with staff of health authorities. This meeting was set up to bring together multi-disciplinary professional trainers to look at the issue of health authority staff's attitudes to ...
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 ...