Community and Cluster Centre Residential Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Long-Term Results from an Australian-Matched Sample

Autor/in	Young, L.
Titel	Community and Cluster Centre Residential Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Long-Term Results from an Australian-Matched Sample
Quelle	In: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50 (2006) 6, S.419-431 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-2633
DOI	10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00788.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adults; Moderate Mental Retardation; Residential Institutions; Severe Mental Retardation; Relocation; Adjustment (to Environment); Quality of Life; Behavior Problems; Decision Making; Models; Skill Development; Matched Groups; Comparative Analysis; Australia; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wohnumgebung; Umsetzung; Lebensqualität; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Analogiemodell; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Australien; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	Background: Changes in residential accommodation models for adults with intellectual disability (ID) over the last 20 years in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have involved relocation from institutions primarily into dispersed homes in the community. But an evolving alternative service style is the cluster centre. Methods: This paper reports on the relocation of a matched group of 30 pairs of adults with moderate and severe IDs and challenging behaviour who were relocated from an institution into either dispersed housing in the community or cluster centres but under the same residential service philosophy. Adaptive and maladaptive behaviour, choice-making and objective life quality were assessed prior to leaving the institution and then after 12 and 24 months of living in the new residential model. Results: Adaptive behaviour, choice-making and life quality increased for both groups and there was no change in level of maladaptive behaviour compared with levels exhibited in the institution. However, there were some significant differences between the community and cluster centre group as the community group increased some adaptive skills, choice-making and objective life quality to a greater extent than the cluster centre group. Conclusions: Both cluster centre and dispersed community living offer lifestyle and skill development advantages compared with opportunities available in large residential institutions. Dispersed community houses, however, offer increased opportunities for choice-making, acquisition of adaptive behaviours and improved life quality for long-term institutionalized adults with IDs. (Author).
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