Comparing Housing and Support Models for Adults with Learning Disabilities
An exploratory research project to compare the costs and outcomes of supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities.
Housing and Support
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) has a vision of a society where all people, regardless of age or disability, are valued and able to live the life they choose. This includes people having choice and control over where they live and the support that they receive.
Through our work across the UK with older people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems it has become clear that despite the range of housing options that exists for people with support needs, there is still an over reliance on traditional forms of housing and support such as residential or nursing care.
Although current health and social care policy and legislation emphasises person-centred approaches and use of community based options (e.g. the Care Act 2014), and discourages residential settings which are segregated from family and communities, this does not appear to be having a significant impact on current patterns. Indeed, it appears that we are currently seeing a shift away from options that offer choice and control, towards more traditional residential care – with these developments being implemented on the rationale that residential care is lower cost.
In order to stimulate debate about the continued over reliance and possible increase in use of residential care, and to encourage more serious exploration and consideration of alternative options, NDTi conducted work to scope, define and describe the different housing and support options available for older people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems.
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