Housing Blog Posts

• Personalised supports in Ireland produce better outcomes than support in congregated settings

  14 Mar 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• “The links between poor health and reoffending have been long understood” according to agreement

  04 Nov 2013

  • Caroline De Brún

  
• Active support study finds shared supported accommodation services inefficient for more able people with learning disabilities

  30 Aug 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Shared Lives schemes can reduce costs and help achieve greater independence

  22 Jul 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Few advantages found to grouping by diagnosis in staffed housing for people with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum disorder

  25 Feb 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Living in own home offered choices to people with learning disabilities but location predictive of support related choices

  11 Feb 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Congregate services for people with learning disabilities may persist without planned transfer of resources

  09 Aug 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• US study finds high levels of obesity in women with learning disability, Down syndrome, and milder learning disability

  07 Dec 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Quality of life measures show improvements for people with complex needs leaving hospital

  28 Oct 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Comparisons show need for improvements across Europe in systematic health checks for people with learning disabilities

  24 Oct 2011

  • John Northfield