Improving quality of life outcomes in supported accommodation for people with intellectual disability: What makes a difference?

C Bigby, J Beadle‐Brown - Journal of Applied Research in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background The quality of life (QOL) of people with intellectual disability living in supported
accommodation services is variable, influenced by many possible factors. Various …

Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

L Series - 2022 - books.google.com
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century
the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was …

[KNIHA][B] Active support: Enabling and empowering people with intellectual disabilities

J Mansell, J Beadle-Brown - 2012 - books.google.com
Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with
intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based …

Telling people what to do (and, sometimes, why): Contingency, entitlement and explanation in staff requests to adults with intellectual impairments

C Antaki, A Kent - Journal of Pragmatics, 2012 - Elsevier
How do support staff resolve the interactional dilemma of getting their clients to do things,
while respecting their independence? In a corpus of over 200 everyday requests made by …

Reflections on doing inclusive research in the “Making Life Good in the Community” study

C Bigby, P Frawley - Journal of Intellectual and Developmental …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background The involvement of people with intellectual disability in research is framed as
inclusive, denoting their active participation in its processes. However, questions are raised …

Uncovering dimensions of culture in underperforming group homes for people with severe intellectual disability

C Bigby, M Knox, J Beadle-Brown… - Intellectual and …, 2012 - meridian.allenpress.com
Culture recurs as an important but under-investigated variable associated with resident
outcomes in supported accommodation for people with intellectual disability. This study …

Using the concept of encounter to further the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities: What has been learned?

C Bigby, I Wiesel - Research and Practice in Intellectual and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Social inclusion has been an enduring policy aim of intellectual disability policy since the
early 1980s, which has been difficult to achieve. It has often been conceptualised as the …

Conundrums of supported living: The experiences of people with intellectual disability

C Bigby, E Bould, J Beadle-Brown - Journal of Intellectual & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Dissatisfaction with the inflexibility of the group home model has led to the
growth of supported living that separates housing from support and is thought to have …

Making space for belonging: Critical reflections on the implementation of personalised adult social care under the veil of meaningful inclusion

A Power - Social Science & Medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper critically reflects on the way in which recent adult social care reform has been
evolving beneath the alleged policy goal of prioritising the cultivation of meaningful inclusion …

Encounter as a dimension of social inclusion for people with intellectual disability: Beyond and between community presence and participation

C Bigby, I Wiesel - Journal of Intellectual and Developmental …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In the last decade, the influence of the social model of disability broadened the focus to
include wider social processes. Australian policy aimed to create conditions more conducive …