Institutions in Turbulent Environments by T.P. Keating

Author:T.P. Keating [Keating, T.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780429853937
Google: cvmADwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-21T04:50:23+00:00

The Experience of Clients in the Community: The Myrtle House and Grevillea Residents

It was significant that those who were the first to move from the facility were among the most difficult to care for. The Myrtle House redevelopment project targeted the closure of one of the State's most notorious locked wards. Rather than relocate its residents to other institutional units however, it took the three most behaviourally difficult clients in the institution, and placed them with appropriate support within the community. This was a challenge to the view that only the most highly functioning could live within community settings, and that the institution would always be required to provide for the most frail, most aged, or most behaviourally disturbed.

Rob Macdonald described the importance of having focussed on the older and more disabled residents, and creating options for them early:

... Myrtle House, and the movement of the Grevillea people, as the first program that was actually approved was for the aged and the disabled people, and yeah because people were expecting us to move the Gatehouse people, because they were easy, or there were a couple of clients who had a bit of money. That would have been an opening just for everyone to say it will happen slowly and just picking out the winners, I suppose... the fact we did it first rather than left it to the end, was one of the best decisions we ever made, I think.

(Macdonald interview)

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