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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"supported living"”.
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What Makes a House a Home? Supported Living Environments for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
<p>My research aims to address how supported living environments for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) can best support their stakeholders. This is an inherently human and personal problem, but existing research tackling this problem utilizing a person-centric and/or resiliency theory …
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Adult Independent Living Outcomes for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… benefit from lifelong residential, independent living. Often residential housing for persons with ASDs, other than those isolated in the family home, is institutional in nature. The purpose of this research is to identify aspects of a specially designed supported living residence, based on a new …
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The experiences of staff supporting people with intellectual disabilities with dementia, death, and bereavement
… the experiences of ten paid staff who have supported a person with an intellectual disability and dementia within a supported living setting. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was used. Four themes were developed: (1) The value of the pre-existing relationship to paid staff as …
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Meeting the Aspirations of Learning Disability Policy: The Role of the Support Worker
This study investigates the research question: What role do support workers play in enacting learning disability policy in England? Social care policy has developed from a culture of paternalism and institutionalisation, to one that advocates enablement and community-based care. Government policy …
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Young people’s perceptions of novel psychoactive substances
… Research sites included colleges, youth groups, supported living accommodations, and youth drug and alcohol services. Focus group interviews explored participants’ perceptions of NPS and were followed up with a few semi structured interviews with selected participants. The direction of the study …
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Modelling Malaysia residents’ behavioural intention to use smartwatch: the role of health technology and device benefits
… technology, infotainment and communications, supported living and safety, and lifestyle and fashion are beneficial for social well-being. Researchers hypothesised that these practical applications which automatically manage individual personal information, simplify infotainment and …
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An Exploration of the Experiences of Paid Social Care Staff who have Supported and/or Currently Support People with Learning Difficulties Living with Cancer in Residential Services across Wales: A Grounded Theory Study
… - People with learning disabilities are living longer. Increased longevity ensures the learning disability population is vulnerable to age related illnesses, such as cancer. Juxtaposed with the deinstitutionalisation movement of recent decades and the resulting growth and increasing …
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Annual Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities: An exploration of Experiences, Follow-up and Self-management of Health Conditions
… independently, with their families, and within supported living accommodation. Individuals were interviewed just after the AHC to explore their experience, any issues identified, and any actions proposed. They were then interviewed at six months and again at 11 months. Follow-up interviews …
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Narrative power : social control in ISLs and group homes
… of people in these settings. Individualized Supported Living arrangements (ISLs) and group homes are settings where the social role of a client, a person with intellectual and developmental disabilities receiving support in this setting, is a clearly marked social role with almost no ability …