Housing, Care and Support: Volume 6 Issue 3
Strapline:
A journal on policy, research and practiceTable of contents
Housing for adults with a learning disability: ‘I want to choose, but they don't listen’
Laura Gorfin, Alex McglaughlinThe White Paper Valuing People (DoH, 2003) promises to increase choice and control for adults with a learning disability, housing being one area specifically highlighted in this…
How do you measure success? A framework for measuring performance across services for people sleeping rough
Mike Penny, Katie OwenThis article describes a system for measuring performance in Edinburgh, developed across all services working with people sleeping rough. This performance framework is based on…
Resettled older homeless people: What works and reasons for failures
Maureen Crane, Anthony WarnesThis paper examines the housing and support needs of older homeless people when they are resettled. Evidence is from a longitudinal study of the resettlement of 64 older homeless…
Connecting vulnerable people to their communities: Easy to say and hard to do?
Carl PollOne of Valuing People's central principles is that people with learning disabilities will be included in society. But how do service providers do that? This article suggests that…
Retirement communities: A new perspective on retirement
Peter ShipleyThe Journal has considered several recent developments in housing for older people, the future of sheltered housing, ideas about extra care housing and now on retirement…
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1460-8790e-ISSN:
2042-8375ISSN-L:
1460-8790Online date, start – end:
1998Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Martin Whiteford