Transferring Local Authority Residential Homes to the Independent Sector: The Worcestershire Experience

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Doug Duckworth ◽  
Catherine Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Independent Sector

Multi-Purpose Residential Homes: A Fair Deal for Residents?

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-404
Author(s):  
Fay Wright
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Residential Home ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Community Support Services

ABSTRACTThe paper reports on a study carried out in 1990 for the Department of Health looking at the development of local authority multi-purpose residential homes for elderly people in England and Wales. A national survey showed that one in five public sector residential homes for elderly people would soon be multi-purpose. This proportion could be expected to increase in the 1990S. Many of these homes had become the centre for virtually all the community support services for elderly people in the neighbourhood. Despite some obvious management advantages in making use of residential home facilities for older people in the community, there have to be serious reservations about a multi-purpose model. Case studies in six multi-purpose homes suggest that residents themselves may gain little or nothing from this arrangement. Few interact with elderly people from the neighbourhood in the day centre. So much activity on the premises meant that invasions of residents' privacy and space were common.

scholarly journals Psychiatric clinics in residential homes for the elderly

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 516-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham A. Jackson ◽  
Donald Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Homes For The Elderly

We have evaluated the effects of providing a ‘roving’ psychiatric clinic to local authority residential homes for the elderly. The clinic was well received by the staff in the homes, reduced the need for urgent domiciliary consultations and hospital admission and appeared to be highly cost-effective.

Physical Care and Quality of Life in Residential Homes

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Hughes ◽  
David Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Important Determinant ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Physical Care

ABSTRACTThis article proposes that the quality of physical care is an important determinant of quality of life for dependent people. It begins by reporting the findings of a qualitative analysis of physical care in six local authority homes and suggests a framework for understanding the ways in which physical care practices evolved. The paper concludes by illustrating how the same framework can be used as a basis for improving the quality of physical care.

scholarly journals Responsibilities of Consultants in Child, Family and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Personal View

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Wardle
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team Approach ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

This paper discusses the special problems of consultants' responsibilities in child and adolescent psychiatry, following the College memorandum (Bulletin, September 1977, pp 4–7). In particular consideration is given to the implications of consultants working in multidisciplinary teams and attached to clinics, residential homes and schools administered by the Local Authority. Ever since 1927, when Emanuel Miller opened the East London Child Guidance Clinic, a multidisciplinary team approach has been the elected method for dealing with psychiatric problems of children and their families.

Cheratte-Visé: a Muslim village in Wallonia

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-344
Author(s):  
Christophe Parthoens ◽  
Dina Sensi ◽  
Altay Manco
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Local Councillors ◽  
Turkish Community

This article aims to describe the processes leading to social integration of a Turkish community at the beginning of the sixties who were resident in a mining region in Belgium. The stages through which this immigrant working population had to go through are described here: and how it managed, within a third of century, to become established in the district, to structure itself in associations, to be recognized by the local authority and the institutional fabric of the host country, and finally, to sit down at the same table with the local councillors.

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