Services for People with Learning Disabilities provides a broad review of available services for people with learning disabilities. It describes the present network of services and explains the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) in terminoloy accessible to health care professionals and others engaged
Changing Services for People with Learning Disabilities
โ Scribed by R. Farmer, J. Rohde, B. Sacks (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 202
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
The register system....Pages 14-16
Prevalence....Pages 17-30
Places of residence....Pages 31-38
Residents in family homes....Pages 39-56
Residents in hospitals....Pages 57-75
Residents in private or voluntary homes....Pages 76-89
Residents in Local Authority homes and hostels....Pages 90-99
Residents in NHS hostels....Pages 100-106
Residents in other types of institution....Pages 107-115
Causal diagnosis....Pages 116-129
Severity of disability....Pages 130-136
Discussion....Pages 137-154
Back Matter....Pages 155-190
โฆ Subjects
Social Work; Public Health
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