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Quality of Life Indicators for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Extending Current Practice
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Brown, Ivan; Hatton, Chris; Emerson, Eric – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Quality of life is a social construct that is measured by what are considered to be its most appropriate indicators. Quality of life measurement in intellectual disability reflects a variety of indicators, often grouped under life domains. Subjective and objective methods of measuring indicators each have strengths and drawbacks, but it is…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Social Indicators, Measurement Techniques
Organizational Predictors of Staff Stress, Satisfaction, and Intended Turnover in a Service for People with Multiple Disabilities.
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Hatton, Chris; Emerson, Eric – Mental Retardation, 1993
Questionnaire data were collected from 64 direct-care staff members in a residential facility for people with multiple disabilities. Path analyses identified factors predicting levels of perceived stress, overall job satisfaction, overall life satisfaction, and perceived likelihood of leaving the organization. Factors included staff support, job…
Descriptors: Attendants, Employee Attitudes, Labor Turnover, Multiple Disabilities
Whose Quality of Life Is It Anyway? Some Problems with the Emerging Quality of Life Consensus.
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Hatton, Chris – Mental Retardation, 1998
Argues that there are insuperable problems in assessing subjective indicators of quality of life and that this approach should be abandoned. Also notes this approach may serve to extend the license of services to exert control over all facets of a person's life. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Life Satisfaction
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