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Getting to grips with Eurospeak
- Author:
- HAWKS Jennie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability Issues, 19, November 1994, pp.8-9.
A guide to the European programmes which are of immediate interest to those in the disability field.
Who's taking the lead in Europe?
- Author:
- HALDANE Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Disability Issues, 16, April 1994, pp.14-15.
Looks at European Union (EU) funding programmes such as HELIOS and how far they favour projects which involve disabled people in developing policies.
Promoting best practice
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Disability Issues, 19, November 1994, pp.14-15.
Telford College in Edinburgh have been awarded a contract under the HELIOS programme to organise a programme of activities throughout the European Union to promote equal opportunities for disabled people.
Mobility and transport: meeting the needs of older people with disabilities; report from a Eurolink Age seminar, Brussels, November 5-7 1993
- Author:
- EUROLINK AGE
- Publisher:
- Eurolink Age
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 43p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains conference papers organised into the following sections: background; the European context - past actions; the European context - recent developments and current initiatives; public transport systems; a safe and accessible pedestrian environment; and the provision of transport information.
Access denied: human rights and disabled people
- Authors:
- FOLEY Conor, PRATT Sue
- Publisher:
- Liberty
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the governments attitude towards civil rights for disabled people, at international law, and at discrimination against disabled people. Makes comparisons with the situation in Europe and in the United States.
Going inter-professional: working together for health and welfare
- Editor:
- LEATHARD Audrey
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 268p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together academics, professionals and researchers from the human services professions to assess key developments and underlying issues around inter-agency and inter-professional relations as they affect hospitals, general practice and community care. Includes chapters on: the theoretical background to inter-professional work; education and management issues; work with children, disabled people, older people and people with mental health problems; implications for carers; and developments in Australia, Western Europe and the USA.
Disability: Britain in Europe; an evaluation of UK participation in the HELIOS programme 1988-1991
- Authors:
- LOVELOCK Robin, POWELL Jackie
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 263p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
An examination of the policy and practice issues involved in the process of implementing a European Community action programme aiming to promote the independent living of disabled people in the 12 member states. Introduces the HELIOS programme; evaluates its progress; looks at the management and co-ordination of HELIOS; focuses in on 15 local projects in the UK; examines the different uses of the HELIOS networks; and discusses findings and future issues and possibilities.
Inform '92: meeting the information needs of disabled people in Europe; International Conference Centre, Birmingham 13 and 14 October 1992
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 159p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: acceptable language in information provision; the National Disability Information Project; telephone information helplines; MENCAP's profound intellectual and multiple disabilities section; physical and attitudinal barriers to effective information provision; employment information for people with disabilities; the accessibility of public information in different European countries; the EC's Helios programme; Kent County Council and links between disabled people in Europe; methods of disseminating information; the Deaf Women's Health Project; the Asian People with Disabilities Alliance; information and visual impairment; advocacy and the law; the use and value of information technology; and travelling and tourism for all.
A crisis in care: the future of family and state care for older people in the European Union
- Authors:
- McGLONE Francis, CRONIN Natalie
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 52p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report investigating Europe's looming crisis in care for older people. Argues that family and state care is in decline at the very moment when the number of people needing such care is increasing. Looks at disability and dependency; family care; the pressures of caring; support for carers in the European Union; the changing ability of the family to care; changing attitudes towards care; and European social policy. Also contains a chapter comparing social provision in the EC member states.