This dual article writes about Ken and his hopes and dreams of leaving the Willow Court Centre as well as expressing his mixed feelings of leaving his home for the last 13 years. Ken’s journey and experience was not unlike the many residents that started the de-institutionalisation process that took another 13 years to complete.
The second part of this article quotes Royal Derwent Hospital’s Administrator, Mr Grant Lennox announcing that he expected the majority of the Centre’s 300 residents to eventually live in the community houses.
At the time this lead to much anxiety among staff and families who were concerned for their own situations and those of the residents and family members they knew so well.
