Macpherson, Hannah and Hall, Edward and Power, Andrew and Kaley, Alex (2023) Debilitating landscapes of care and support: envisaging alternative futures. Social and Cultural Geography, 24 (1). pp. 140-156. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1922736
Macpherson, Hannah and Hall, Edward and Power, Andrew and Kaley, Alex (2023) Debilitating landscapes of care and support: envisaging alternative futures. Social and Cultural Geography, 24 (1). pp. 140-156. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1922736
Macpherson, Hannah and Hall, Edward and Power, Andrew and Kaley, Alex (2023) Debilitating landscapes of care and support: envisaging alternative futures. Social and Cultural Geography, 24 (1). pp. 140-156. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1922736
Abstract
This paper explores the impact of policy changes and budget cuts on services and support faced by people with learning disabilities. Drawing upon collaborative research in England and Scotland and interviews with commissioners and support organisations, we show how landscapes of care and support are unstable and fragmented. We identify how pressures of time, resource and precaritisation in the workforce are creating ‘debilitating landscapes of care’ that further erode the capacities of both the people that work in the sector and people with learning disabilities. Some challenges that people with learning disabilities face in this context include finding appropriate local support, narrowing access as a result of reductions in benefit entitlements and identifying quality providers amid a complex array of private and charitable provision. Capacity to cope with these challenges is contingent on access to quality advocacy, supportive family, friendships, productive occupational learning environments and peer support, but these are not always available. The impact of COVID-19 has only served to intensify some of the issues we identify and the urgent need for a response. Our analysis is inspired by Berlant’s (2007) conception of ‘slow-death’ and Puar’s (2017) associated conceptualisation of ‘debility’.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Care; learning disability; personalisation; austerity; debility; landscape |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Health and Social Care, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2023 16:02 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:03 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/36563 |
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