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Supporting older families of people with learning disabilities
— a briefing from the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities |
| Author(s) | Hazel Morgan, Dalia Magrill |
| Corporate Author | Older Family Carers Initiative (OFCI), Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities |
| Publisher | Mental Health Foundation, London, 2005 |
| Pages | 8 pp |
| Source | The Mental Health Foundation, Sea Containers House, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9QB. Email: fpld@fpld.org.uk Website: www.learningdisabilities.org.uk |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Family care ; Parents over 60 as carers ; Needs [elderly] ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | This is a briefing from the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities' Older Family Carers Initiative (OFCI). The three-year initiative has come up with a clear set of policy messages to help health and social care service providers to meet the needs of older family carers and their relative with a learning disability. The authors have found that there is still a long way to go to implement fully those aspects of the "Valuing people" White Paper (Cm 5086) relating to older families. This briefing makes recommendations for policy makers, commissioners, and learning disability partnership boards. It draws attention to key themes including: building up families' confidence and maintaining continuity of support; the need for joined up approaches; the need for information; and tackling the poverty of many older family carers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050321004 B |
| Classmark | E4: P6:SJ: P6:BB: IK: TM2 |
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