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Closure of Grosvenor, Peat Island and Lachlan large residential centres - post implementation review
— summary report, for NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Ageing Disability and Home Care | | Author(s) | Karen R Fisher, Sandra Gendera, Friederike Gadow |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Publisher | University of New South Wales, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, August 2013 |
| Pages | 141 pp (SPRC report no 17/13) |
| Source | https://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/media/SPRCFile/PIR_public_Rep... |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Closure ; House removal ; Residents [care homes] ; Quality of life ; Projects ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In Australia, a large residential centre (LRC) is an older style model that provides 24 hour residential support for people with disability in a congregate setting of more than 20 places, built as a hospital in service model and functional design. In 1998, the New South Wales Government announced that all LRCs in NSW would be closed and no further admissions allowed in LRCs after 2002, unless in exceptional circumstances with approval from the Director General. The redevelopment process and closures of the three LRCs was designed and planned with participation from a number of stakeholder groups. This summary report. considers the Project Performance Analysis (PPA) and the Quality of Life (QoL) study. The PPA investigated the degree to which the three projects achieved identified objectives, outputs, and outcomes, as well as gauging stakeholder satisfaction. Quality of Life was measured in terms of how satisfied people with disability were with their previous and current situations in terms of: material standard of living; participation, growing and learning; health and wellbeing; social relationships; and autonomy. (RH) The degree in which the projects achieved and sustained a better quality of life of |
| Accession Number | CPA-131101200 E |
| Classmark | KW: 5YW: TNH: KX: F:59: 3E: 7YA |
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