What does ‘feeling at home’ mean for adults with intellectual disabilities living in group homes in England?
What does ‘feeling at home’ mean for adults with intellectual disabilities living in group homes in England?
Background: shared housing for adults with intellectual disabilities with staff support, is a common housing model internationally. We explored an overlooked aspect of group homes, namely the extent to which they enable a sense of ‘feeling at home’ for residents.
Method: a diverse group of 19 housemates participated in a photovoice study. Participants took photos in their homes and discussed them in individual interviews and in groups. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.
Results: residents' experience of home was multi-dimensional. ‘Feeling at home’ related to home as a site of identity cultivation (personal home); physical comfort or ‘misfitting’ (physical home) and home as the locus of key relationships (social home).
Conclusion: achieving a sense of ‘feeling at home’ requires engagement in practices of home-making. Many of our participants required support from staff to engage in these practices. For some housemates their experience of home was conditional and precarious.
group home, homeliness, intellectual disability, photovoice, residential care, residential care
Chinn, Deborah
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Levitan, Tony
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Power, Andrew
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Brickley, Katy
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Ali, Shalim
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14 August 2024
Chinn, Deborah
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Levitan, Tony
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Power, Andrew
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Brickley, Katy
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Ali, Shalim
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Chinn, Deborah, Levitan, Tony, Power, Andrew, Brickley, Katy and Ali, Shalim
(2024)
What does ‘feeling at home’ mean for adults with intellectual disabilities living in group homes in England?
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 37 (5), [e13274].
(doi:10.1111/jar.13274).
Abstract
Background: shared housing for adults with intellectual disabilities with staff support, is a common housing model internationally. We explored an overlooked aspect of group homes, namely the extent to which they enable a sense of ‘feeling at home’ for residents.
Method: a diverse group of 19 housemates participated in a photovoice study. Participants took photos in their homes and discussed them in individual interviews and in groups. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.
Results: residents' experience of home was multi-dimensional. ‘Feeling at home’ related to home as a site of identity cultivation (personal home); physical comfort or ‘misfitting’ (physical home) and home as the locus of key relationships (social home).
Conclusion: achieving a sense of ‘feeling at home’ requires engagement in practices of home-making. Many of our participants required support from staff to engage in these practices. For some housemates their experience of home was conditional and precarious.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 July 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 August 2024
Published date: 14 August 2024
Keywords:
group home, homeliness, intellectual disability, photovoice, residential care, residential care
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/493827
ISSN: 1360-2322
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