Housing, Care and Support: Volume 7 Issue 3

Squaring circles

Lynn Watson

Meeting complex needs in social care

Jennifer Rankin, Sue Regan

Too many health and social care services are failing to meet people's complex needs. In this paper, ‘complex needs’ is presented as a framework to help understand multiple…

Managing risk for tenants with mental health problems and offending histories

Beth Taylor, Gillian Jeffery

Investigation of the move‐on needs of patients from Ravenswood Medium Secure Unit in Hampshire has shown that more independent community‐based accommodation is required. Such…

Supporting People: Slicing the cake

Sue Ramsden

The question of how local authorities will manage fixed budgets for the Supporting People (SP) programme raises concerns among service users and providers. These concerns are…

The housing and support needs of teenage mothers

Jamie Harding, Rachel Kirk

The Government has expressed a wish to see more supported accommodation made available to teenage parents, and has identified a number of possible models that might be employed…

Planning for the future with adults with a learning disability living with older carers

Laura Gorfin, Alex McGlaughlin

Planning for the future for those adults with a learning disability who live with older carers is an important aspect of the White Paper Valuing People (DoH, 2001). Indeed, such…

Supporting good nutrition for people with learning disabilities

Karen Kennedy, Jenny Pannell, Neil Summers

Nutrition and exercise matter for everyone, including people with learning disabilities. Poor nutrition and lack of exercise can have adverse effects on emotional and physical…

Introducing assistive technology (AT) into the homes of older people: The REKI (REading/KIng's) research project

Anthea Tinker

The research reported here focuses on how far, and at what cost, the housing stock can be modified to accommodate the assistive technology (AT) to enable older people to remain in…