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Dementia as a disability: can we learn from disability studies and theory?
- Author:
- BARTLETT Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(5), September 2000, pp.33-36.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reviews literature in the field of disability studies, outlining how certain ideas and approaches to concepts such as empowerment and independence can contribute to the understanding of the range of social barriers faced by people with dementia.
Welfare rights: housing rights get lost in the system
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.9.99, 1999, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks into disabled people's treatment when it comes to supported housing and asks why their housing rights seem to go out of the window just because the are dependent on social services.
Paths to empowerment
- Editors:
- BARNES Marian, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 148p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In two sections. Section one looks at definitions of empowerment, and existing models and practice. Section two discusses issues for research and researchers. Includes illustrations of different, and sometimes conflicting, voices to emerge from within the user movement and from among voluntary and statutory sector allies.
Now know your rights
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.6.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how recent legal judgements could lead us to believe disabled people's rights have been totally undermined and argues that making sure disabled people know their rights is the key to the problem.
Self-determination across the life span: independence and choice for people with disabilities
- Editors:
- SANDS Deanna J., WEHMEYER Michael L.
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 374p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Written by adults with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, and professionals working in the field, this collection of papers offers a wide range of suggestions on promoting self determination for disabled people. Looks at how to: encourage the growth of self esteem; incorporate self determination skills into educational programmes; begin skill training in the home; promote self determination throughout the life span; and how to evaluate the progress of skill acquisition.
Disability politics: understanding our past, changing our future
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jane, OLIVER Mike
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written by disabled people with the aim of enabling other people with disabilities to understand their past and change their future. Examines the changes in the profile of disabled people throughout Britain over the last 15 years, including the emergence of the disability movement. Concludes by considering possible future directions for disabled people in 21st Century Britain.
In whose service? A review of the development of services for disabled people
- Author:
- FRENCH Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Traces the history of welfare provision for disabled people from the Middle Ages, through the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the medical profession, the Eugenics movement, post-war services, deinstitutionalisation and the role of disabled people.
Defining disability - a position statement by the Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
A paper presented at a conference held in Nottingham in late 1993 'Key Issues in Disability: Rights or Charity, the Future of Welfare'. Considers the 'medical model' or 'individual model' of disability, and the development of the 'social approach' as a politically significant alternative definition.
The exclusion of disabled people from positions of power in British voluntary organisations
- Author:
- DRAKE Robert F.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(4), 1994, pp.461-480.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disabled people are excluded in various ways from a wide range of social privileges, activities and institutions. Voluntary and charitable organisations promote themselves as champions of disabled people in their struggle to access to the ordinary choices and opportunities of everyday life. Reports the findings of a study which demonstrates that in voluntary agencies governed by able-bodied people, disabled people are excluded from positions of power and influence, and they experience the same sorts of barriers and constraints as those with which they are confronted in the wider world.
Serving the cause of equal citizenship: welfare farms or welfare citizenship?
- Author:
- DAVIS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Considers the role of the disability rights movement in challenging the provisions of Beveridge's welfare state.