Developments in day services during the past ten years; some key practice issues; the use of social networks; promoting quality of life at home; contrasting patterns of living and contrasting services; respite; when carers become older or die; a part-time day service; the challenge of being able-bodied with a severe learning disability; day services in rural areas.
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[This book] uses an extensive range of case studies to examine 1980s day services from the standpoint of people with learning difficulties and their families. The material captures a depressing, but telling snapshot of lives devoid of social contact outside the family or day centre, and of a shocking lack of opportunities for appropriate and meaningful activities.