Housing, Care and Support: Volume 6 Issue 3

On not filling in questionnaires, or how to kill off the spirit of inquiry

Maurice Harker

Housing for adults with a learning disability: ‘I want to choose, but they don't listen’

Laura Gorfin, Alex Mcglaughlin

The White Paper Valuing People (DoH, 2003) promises to increase choice and control for adults with a learning disability, housing being one area specifically highlighted in this…

How do you measure success? A framework for measuring performance across services for people sleeping rough

Mike Penny, Katie Owen

This article describes a system for measuring performance in Edinburgh, developed across all services working with people sleeping rough. This performance framework is based on…

Resettled older homeless people: What works and reasons for failures

Maureen Crane, Anthony Warnes

This paper examines the housing and support needs of older homeless people when they are resettled. Evidence is from a longitudinal study of the resettlement of 64 older homeless…

Connecting vulnerable people to their communities: Easy to say and hard to do?

Carl Poll

One of Valuing People's central principles is that people with learning disabilities will be included in society. But how do service providers do that? This article suggests that…

Retirement communities: A new perspective on retirement

Peter Shipley

The Journal has considered several recent developments in housing for older people, the future of sheltered housing, ideas about extra care housing and now on retirement…