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Characteristics, Supports, and Quality of Life of Irish Adults with Intellectual Disability in Life-Sharing Residential Communities
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Fahey, Aine; Walsh, Patricia Noonan; Emerson, Eric; Guerin, Suzanne – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2010
Background: Few empirical studies have compared quality and outcomes for residents with intellectual disability across intentional communities such as those organised by the Camphill communities in Ireland. Method: Using a multi-element research protocol developed for an earlier large study, data were gathered about the characteristics of N = 29…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Group Homes, Foreign Countries
Cluster Housing for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
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Emerson, Eric – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2004
While there is extensive evidence on the overall benefits of deinstitutionalisation, the move from institutional care to providing accommodation and support in small to medium sized dispersed housing schemes has not gone uncontested. Recently, a number of commentators have argued for the development of cluster housing on the basis that it may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Normalization (Disabilities), Housing, Quality of Life
The Quality and Costs of Community-Based Residential Supports and Residential Campuses for People with Severe and Complex Disabilities.
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Emerson, Eric; Robertson, Janet; Gregory, Nicky; Kessissoglou, Sophia; Hallam, Chris; Hallam, Angela; Knapp, Martin; Jarbrink, Krister; Netten, Ann; Linehan, Christine – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2000
The costs, nature, and benefits of residential supports were examined for 20 adults with severe disabilities living in newly built residential campuses and 20 adults living in small community-based dispersed housing schemes. Participants living in dispersed housing schemes enjoyed significantly greater quality of care and quality of life.…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Independent Living, Program Costs
Deinstitutionalization in the UK and Ireland: Outcomes for Service Users.
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Emerson, Eric; Hatton, Chris – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1996
The United Kingdom literature on effects of deinstitutionalization of adults with developmental disabilities from 1980 to 1994 was reviewed. Analysis generally associated smaller, community-based residential services with improvements in user engagement, adaptive behaviors and challenging behaviors, community acceptance and integration,…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Quality and Costs of Community-based Residential Supports, Village Communities, and Residential Campuses in the United Kingdom.
Emerson, Eric; Robertson, Janet; Gregory, Nicky; Hatton, Chris; Kessissoglou, Sophia; Hallam, Angela; Knapp, Martin; Jarbrink, Krister; Walsh, Patricia Noonan; Netten, Ann – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2000
A study of 86 adults with mental retardation living in village communities, 133 in residential campuses, and 281 in dispersed housing schemes found dispersed housing had higher costs and had greater quality of care than did residential campuses. Quality of life benefits were associated with dispersed housing and village communities. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Group Homes