Foster families for adults: A community alternative to long-term care - Sherman, Newman - 1988 () Citation Context ...yon, 1995). Small RC facilities tend to be much like typical family settings in single-family homes, with the operator's other family members also living in the homes (...
so does the need for living facilities designed with the senior adult in mind. Adult foster care homes are licensed facilities that provide family setting living arrangements. Adult foster homes may also provide assistance with medication, supervision, and personal ...
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In Oregon, adult foster care (AFC) homes, which are private residences where a live-in manager cares for one to five disabled residents, have been covered by Medicaid since 1981 and seem to offer a mainstream alternative to nursing homes. They house almost 6000 older people, two thirds of ...
for them. Once in the foster care system, foster youth are placed in homes with complete strangers that sometimes are just as dysfunctional, if not more, than the homes they were removed from. They move from home to home, foster family to foster family, and often from school system to ...
Placement stability is tied to well-being among children living in foster care, yet residential mobility remains largely unexplored for transition-age youth residing in extended foster care (EFC) between ages 18 and 21. During the time young adults in EFC can remain in foster homes, child welfar...
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more children and youth enter the foster care system and are in need of safe, loving homes. Some of our children and youth need a temporary place to stay. Others need families willing to commit to their care for a lifetime. All children and youth deserve to be raised in homes where the...
This paper presents the findings of a study of Aboriginal children whom the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs placed in foster homes between 1954 and 1966. It is an attempt to follow up one of the many problems expressed by social workers in Adelaide during a study of Aborigines...
that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and allow same-sex couples to marry, enter into a civil union, or register as domestic partners. Of the 10 states with the lowest percentage of LGBT adults, only Iowa has such laws (Gates and Newcome 2013, p. 3)...