Between risk and autonomy: producing subjects in group homes and supervised workshops for people with intellectual disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Georg Gappmayer
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Holding the Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Freitag
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
The Future ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Long wait lists for services and a dearth of people willing to work as caregivers ensure that many people, particularly with intellectual disabilities, continue to live with their aging parents. Informed by a personal narrative of a successful future for a person with intellectual disabilities, this chapter proposes three components that are essential for success. Adults with disabilities can benefit from establishing a life outside their parents’ home. They also need place to work and inclusion in the community. The communities created by L’Arche and the Brothers of Charity, where caregivers live and work together with people with intellectual disabilities, provide one model for care. The extent of current need makes it impossible to provide this for everyone, but some of the lessons learned from “living with” people with disabilities can perhaps be carried over into existing group homes or even institutional care settings.

The role of support staff as people move from congregated settings to group homes and personalized arrangements in Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edurne García Iriarte ◽  
Janine Stockdale ◽  
Roy McConkey ◽  
Fiona Keogh
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Staff Training ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Community Group ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

The movement of people with intellectual disabilities into the community is increasingly endorsed by public policy. Whilst staff are critical to a successful transition to the community, there is only scattered research on their role in supporting people to move. In this study, 32 staff and the 16 people with intellectual disabilities they supported to move from congregated settings to group homes or personalized living arrangements in the community were interviewed on two occasions, before (time 1) and after (time 2) the move. In congregated settings, staff steered the move to community living, they helped them to settle in community group homes and supported them to increase control over their lives in personalized community arrangements, where they support became increasingly more personalized and geared towards community participation and development of social relationships. Implications for staff training are drawn.

scholarly journals Ambivalence among staff regarding ageing with intellectual disabilities: Experiences and reflections

2019 ◽  
pp. 174462951987499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Alftberg ◽  
Maria Johansson ◽  
Gerd Ahlström
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Ageing In Place ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

This study explores the experiences and reflections of staff in intellectual disability (ID) services concerning ageing with ID. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 staff members in group homes and daily activity centres. The findings showed that the staff were uncertain about the signs of ageing in people with intellectual disabilities; they compared the life conditions of these people with conditions in older people without intellectual disabilities. Their emphasis on an active lifestyle was very strong. The staff members also mentioned uncertainty about how to facilitate assistive devices and whether ‘ageing in place’ was the best solution. The overall theme was manifested as ambivalence where notions of older people with intellectual disabilities seemed incompatible with notions of old age in general and could be explained by the theoretical concept of age coding. The findings of this study indicate the need to provide education about ageing to staff working in ID services.

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