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Volume 10, Issue 5
1 October 2002
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Review Article| October 01 2002

Adaptations: Key Evidence for Managers Available to Purchase

Frances Heywood
Frances Heywood
School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7127
Print ISSN: 1477-5190
© MCB UP Limited
2002
MCC (2002) 10 (5): 13–17.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200200042

Research into the effectiveness of housing adaptations (Heywood, 2001) showed how housing adaptations contribute powerfully to key national policy objectives in health and social care, but also found some tragic examples of waste. The article considers how good outcomes could be increased, by examining the management policies and practices that systemically caused some expensive adaptations to fail.

Keywords:
Housing Adaptations, Disabled, Policy, Evidence, Health Outcomes, Community Care, Families
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