Managing transitions

Managing transitions

1. young people leaving care need particular support

   • care setting to independent living

2. study of 57 young people found that 42%

   • relocated in poor quality accommodation
   • rported feeling depressed, stressed, scared and unable to sleep

3. difficult to make new realtionships

4. Cathy

   • Phychiatric unit
     • impersonal
     • inhuman/clinical
     • unwelcoming environemnt workhouse ethos
     • Depressing and un cared-for place

5. Good patient experience

   • Clean, comfortable friendly place to be
   • safe, high quality co-oridnated care

6. mental health act commssion (2005)

   • common in inpatient units
     • environment shabby and ill kept
     • little person space
     • little piece and quiet
     • Overcrowding
     • Men and women housed together
     • drug abuse and illicit drug culture
     • people confined to the ward

7. poor quality setting rubs off and everyone

8. outside the labour market seen as a burden on society

   • at some point end up living in some sort of care setting

9. appearances matter

10. provisions 'Sepcial needs'

    • Seperate
    • Jan Thurlow
      • Claire downs syndrome
    • transistion into a catergory of family ad child
    • special places

11. Alice

    • sequences of transitions
    • well ordered
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