| Long Furrows aims to provide
its residents with a secure, relaxed, and homely environment
in which their care, well being and comfort are of prime
importance.
Carers will strive to preserve and maintain
the dignity; individuality and privacy of all residents
within a warm and caring atmosphere, and in so doing
will be sensitive to individual’s ever changing
needs. Such needs may be health/therapeutic (for physical
and mental welfare), cultural, psychological, spiritual,
emotional and social. Wherever and when possible individual
residents are encouraged to participate in the development
of their individualised Care Plans in which the involvement
of family and friends may be appropriate and is greatly
valued.
This will be achieved through programmes
of activities designed to encourage mental alertness,
self-esteem, and social interaction that aims to closely
reflect the five accomplishments advocated by O’Brien
and Lyle (1987) that focus and guide carers in their
work with residents of the home and describe worthy
consequences of the service activities: |
| Five Accomplishments |
| 1 |
Sharing Ordinary
Places:
by promoting opportunities
for people with learning disabilities (residents
of the home) to share the ordinary places, facilities,
services and activities of community life. |
| 2 |
Making Choice:
prompting choice has as
its aim, to increase control by people with learning
disabilities (residents of the home) over their
own lives. |
| 3 |
Developing Abilities:
by enabling people with
learning disabilities (residents of the home)
to receive the help and support that they need
to explore their interests, to develop skills,
to preserve their health and mobility, to communicate
effectively and confidently and increase self
control. |
| 4 |
Being Treated With Respect
& Having Valued Social Roles:
inherent to this is the way that people with learning
disabilities (residents of the home) can be helped
by presenting themselves positively, eliminate stigmatising
effects of their own behaviour and deal effectively
with prejudiced responses from others. |
| 5 |
Growing Relationships:
by promoting opportunities
for people with learning disabilities (residents
of the home) to develop and sustain ‘ties
and connections’ with others: friends, family
and especially others who are not disabled. |
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