Pastoral Relationship with People with Intellectual ... - Theses

118accommodation areas, apart from the Clinical Health Care Unit, converted theirarea’s sunroom/recreation area to two-person accommodation rooms. Each ofthese areas is being fully utilized for accommodation purposes. A centralizedmanagement structure oversees the administration of the complex. As of early2012 56 elderly and frail people with intellectual disability were accommodatedin the complex, tending to indicate an ongoing commitment to a form ofinstitutional, nursing home accommodation for a number of Minda’s elderlypeople for the immediate future. 3283.2.3 The Political ClimateThere have been signs in recent years of institutions making effortstowards deinstitutionalised accommodation. Nonetheless, there is still evidence tosuggest that such efforts are not at the expense of the continuance ofcontemporary forms of institutionalised accommodation, with thisaccommodation being maintained through the assistance of Commonwealth andState Government funding.The 2005 findings of the State Government’s Public Works Committeeconcerning the Strathmont Centre regarding “an alternative form of ‘institutional’living” 329 tend to suggest that the State Government is not averse to continuingsome form of institutional accommodation for those whose level of intellectualdisability is such that it may militate against them living in fullydeinstitutionalised accommodation.Minda supports many community accommodation residences and an inhomeoutreach nursing service for people with intellectual disability, suggesting acertain commitment towards deinstitutionalised support for people withintellectual disability. However, at the same time, the Pat Kaufmann Centre’snursing home beds are funded by the Commonwealth Government. 330 Thissuggests political support for a form of modern, institutional, campusaccommodation at Minda for at least the elderly and most frail of those people forwhom it bears responsibility.328 Details concerning the nature of accommodation at the Pat Kaufmann Centre are derivedfrom the thesis author’s personal observations.329 Public Works Committee. Final Report, 17.330 Minda Incorporated. Together We Can Do It Minda Incorporated, 2008 [cited January 182009]. Available from, http://www.mindainc.com.au/services/residential-services/aged-careand-health-services