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Direct linkIsabelle Latham; Dawn Brooker; Kay de Vries – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This paper describes a model of "Learning to care" derived from a study exploring how care workers in care homes learn to care for people living with dementia. The "Learning to care" model is primarily informal in nature in which influences such as formalised training and organisational culture impact care outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dementia, Caregivers, Group Homes
Hedayioglu, Julie; Marsden, Sue; Sackree, Amy; Oliver, David – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Wider communication about death and dying for those with intellectual disabilities has been highlighted as being of key importance. Objective: To gain the perspective of paid carers based in residential homes about meaningfully supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities in the bereavement process. Methods: Semi-structured…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Residential Care, Group Homes, Intellectual Disability
Bisschops, Esther H.; de Schipper, J. Clasien; Schippers, Baukje; Embregts, Petri J. C. M.; Schuengel, Carlo – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: The multi-disciplinarity of long-term care for people with intellectual disabilities makes organisations seek stability and predictability, complicating implementing innovations. Interventions to implement a method for reducing restrictive measures were analysed through the lens of Normalisation Process Theory to understand the social…
Descriptors: Health Services, Intellectual Disability, Social Influences, Normalization (Disabilities)
Iacono, T.; Bigby, C.; Carling-Jenkins, R.; Torr, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2014
Background: Disability staff are being increasingly required to support adults with Down syndrome who develop Alzheimer's disease. They have little understanding of the nature of care required, and may lack input from aged care and dementia services, which lack knowledge of intellectual disability. The aim of this study was to report on the…
Descriptors: Group Homes, Caregivers, Down Syndrome, Alzheimers Disease
Fretwell, Christine; Felce, David – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: Anti-psychotic medications are widely prescribed to people with intellectual disabilities and have a range of negative side effects. The aim was to identify the level of knowledge of anti-psychotic medications and their side effects among key carers or home managers of adults with intellectual disabilities living in residential group…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Nurses, Learning Disabilities, Knowledge Level
VanderVen, Karen D. – Child & Youth Services, 2006
Patterns of career development in the field of child and youth care are reexamined in relation to roles that involve working directly with children in specific settings as well as in relation to roles that involve working indirectly in support of children through working with other adults, be these parents, other caregivers or professionals. Other…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Residential Care, Group Homes
Peer reviewedMansell, Jim; Beadle-Brown, Julie; Macdonald, Susan; Ashman, Bev – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2003
The effects of functional grouping of 303 people with intellectual disabilities on care practices in English group homes were investigated. Residents who were non-ambulant were rated as receiving care with less interpersonal warmth and residents with severe challenging behavior were rated as receiving care with less interpersonal warmth and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Disorders, Caregivers
Download full textAnderson, D. J.; And Others – 1987
Detailed information is provided about the characteristics, needs, and service arrangements of 370 elderly persons with mental retardation living in 235 residential facilities operated or licensed by state developmental disabilities agencies. Representative national samples of foster care homes, small group homes, large private facilities, and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Child Caregivers, Day Programs, Delivery Systems
