Group living for adults
In this lesson, you will learn:
- About the types of group living environments
- Some of the conditions and practices that turn settings into negative and damaging environments for the residents living there
- What happens when you deny people the freedoms and spontaneity of everyday life
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Lead and manage group living for adults: Handouts’ by Team Enterprise
- ‘Regulations for service providers and managers’ on the Care Quality Commission website
- ‘From the asylum to community care: learning from experience’ by Helen Killaspy, published in the British Medical Journal
- ‘Person-centred care for older people in care homes’ by the SCIE
- ‘Learning for care homes from alternative residential care settings’ by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- ‘Talking points: Personal outcomes approach. Framework of outcomes important to people living in care homes’ by the Joint Improvement Team
- ‘As easy as ABC: Care UK’s top 100 hints and tips for activity based care’ by Care UK
- ‘Changing social care: An inclusive approach’ by the SCIE
- ‘Digging deep: how organisational culture affects care home residents’ experiences’ by the University of East Anglia
- ‘Handling conflict situations’ on the Care Training website
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Handling conflict situations’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Leading and managing group living for adults’ by Team Enterprise.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- ‘Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates’ by Erving Goffman, published by Anchor Books, 1961.
- Click to find resources and advice on ‘MCA in practice’ on the SCIE website.
- ‘Making it work for us: A residents’ inquiry into sheltered and retirement housing’ by Age UK.
- Click to read ‘Good practice in the design of homes and living spaces for people with dementia and sight loss’ by the University of Sterling.
- ‘Effect of deinstitutionalisation on quality of life for adults with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review’ by Mary McCarron et. al., published by the British Medical Journal.
- ‘How to …. maintain a safe care home environment’ by Adrian Ashurst, published in NRC magazine.
- ‘Health and safety in care homes’ by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
- ‘Dementia-friendly environments’ on the SCIE website.
- ‘Relationships and sexuality in adult social care services’ by the CQC.
- ‘The participation of adult service users, including older people, in developing social care’ by the SCIE.
- Think And Challenge
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