We worked in partnership with B&NES Council and We Care Home Improvements (WCHI), a home improvement agency supporting older people and people with a disability, to deliver person-centred personalised technology assessments and training to people with learning disabilities and their carers. The project was funded by the Department of Health’s Housing and Technology Grant.
The project aimed to support people with learning disabilities living in the Bath and North East Somerset area to live as independently as possible. The identified outcomes were:
- Creating independence: To enable person-centred use of assistive technology to promote independence of people with learning disabilities moving into housing of any tenure to meet their individual needs.
- Maintaining independence: To review and refresh existing support packages of people already living in their own homes whose needs are increasing, changing or whose health is deteriorating.
- Sustaining families: To support provision of assistive technology services for parents with learning disabilities who do not have the support required to sustain their family in independent living.
- General: To utilise adaptations to existing accommodation and use new technologies and other individualised solutions to enable people with learning disabilities to remain living independently
The a final report and case studies are available here
North Somerset Council (2017-18)
As part of the DH Housing and Technology Grant funding, we also worked with North Somerset Council to deliver person-centred personalised technology assessments and training. We worked with a group of people with learning disabilities and their support provider moving into a refurbished property that had been converted into self contained flats, designed to suit their needs.
We also delivered a number of training sessions to the support staff within the new service as well as to health and social care professionals.
