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Injury to benefits
- Author:
- HURN Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.10.03, 2003, p.40.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A new study from Headway and the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus highlights the difficulties people with brain injuries have in claiming disability living allowance. The study found that one in four claims were initally rejected. Three quarters of those rejected appealed and 71 per cent were sucessful.
Community rehabilitation in neurology
- Authors:
- BARNES Michael P., RADERMACHER Harriet
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Rehabilitation should not stop when the disabled person is discharged from hospital, and many neurological patients require ongoing rehabilitation in order to maximise their functional abilities, minimize complications and promote full participation at home and in the community. This book analyses community rehabilitation needs from many different perspectives, including the views of disabled people, rehabilitation clinicians and service providers. Many examples of community rehabilitation schemes are presented, with evidence for their effectiveness, and case studies are used to highlight the main issues. The authors take an international view, and there are chapters dealing with the disabled child in the community and with neuropsychological rehabilitation. The first book to examine the growing trend towards community rehabilitation in neurology, it is directed towards all clinicians involved with neurorehabilitation.
Tell them who i was': the social construction of aphasia
- Author:
- MACKAY Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(6), October 2003, pp.811-826.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article addresses people with aphasia. Talking (communication) is linked to the medical ideology and the social ideology. The medical ideology complements capitalism and promotes the individual. The medical ideology has the power for requiring 'normal' language. One speech therapist says, '...take away hope but it is a rare person who can go back to talking normally as they did before'. The medical ideology takes people with aphasia and constructs the incompetence which marginalises them from the work force and sometimes from their families. The medical ideology encourages dependency, which is disempowering. The social ideology under a different notion of talking encourages people to engage in two-way communication. The author looks at sharing information with a sense of humour, which is empowering. He illustrates that people with aphasia have to operate between the two ideologies.
Independence matters: an overview of the performance of social care services for physically and sensory disabled people; a summary
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Physically and sensorily disabled people should be benefiting from the modernisation of social care along with other service users. This report provides evidence that although some progress is being made, it is slow and patchy and too many disabled people still do not have the opportunities they seek and the support they need to live independently and take control over their lives. The services that councils provide, both through social services and their wider functions, are essential to delivering a high quality of life for disabled people. This can only be achieved with the support and strong leadership of chief executives, directors of social services, senior managers and councillors. Using evidence from both inspections and the annual delivery and improvement statements completed by councils, the report is organised under four themes - independence at home, identity and belonging, active citizenship and systems and processes. Key areas requiring further improvement include: home care is not sufficiently reliable or flexible and is not provided in a way that promotes independence; although waiting times for equipment and minor adaptations have improved some people have to wait unacceptably long times for major adaptations using the disabled facilities grant; services for those with brain injury are not well enough developed across the country; culturally sensitive services for disabled people are not well developed; disabled parents are often not effectively supported; day services needs reshaping to be more community-based, inclusive and linked to increasing employment opportunities although the numbers receiving direct payments are increasing there is still a long way to go before they are part of mainstream provision.
Independence matters: an overview of the performance of social care services for physically and sensory disabled people
- Author:
- CLARK Jan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Physically and sensorily disabled people should be benefiting from the modernisation of social care along with other service users. This report provides evidence that although some progress is being made, it is slow and patchy and too many disabled people still do not have the opportunities they seek and the support they need to live independently and take control over their lives. The services that councils provide, both through social services and their wider functions, are essential to delivering a high quality of life for disabled people. This can only be achieved with the support and strong leadership of chief executives, directors of social services, senior managers and councillors. Using evidence from both inspections and the annual delivery and improvement statements completed by councils, the report is organised under four themes - independence at home, identity and belonging, active citizenship and systems and processes. Key areas requiring further improvement include: home care is not sufficiently reliable or flexible and is not provided in a way that promotes independence; although waiting times for equipment and minor adaptations have improved some people have to wait unacceptably long times for major adaptations using the disabled facilities grant; services for those with brain injury are not well enough developed across the country; culturally sensitive services for disabled people are not well developed; disabled parents are often not effectively supported; day services needs reshaping to be more community-based, inclusive and linked to increasing employment opportunities although the numbers receiving direct payments are increasing there is still a long way to go before they are part of mainstream provision.
Aphasia inside out: reflections on communication disability
- Editor:
- PARR Susie
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 164p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This book brings together a number of different perspectives on aphasia, a communication impairment that can follow a stroke. Contributors include people with personal experience of aphasia, as well as therapists, counsellors, educationalists, linguists and researchers who address issues of living with aphasia in their work. Whatever their perspective, whether personal, theoretical or professional, contributors reflect on and explore aspects of living with aphasia that have little place in conventional academic discourse. Accordingly, the chapters cover a range of issues, for example aphasia and the Internet, time and poetry. The book suggests new ways of thinking about aphasia, offers insights into the nature of the disabling barriers faced, and explores some creative possibilities open to people who live with communication disability.
Cracked: recovering after traumatic brain injury
- Author:
- CALDERWOOD Lynsey
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 223p.
- Place of publication:
- London
At the age of 14, the author suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her physically unmarked but destroyed her memory. Thrust back into an apparently nonsensical world of which she had no recollection, she spiralled into depression and eating disorders as she became socially ostracized. This is the story of her quest to discover her identity and, eventually, and to come to terms with her disability, facing devastating setbacks, a sense of loss, grief and rage.