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Time to get your last claim home
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As severe disablement allowances faces the axe, the author looks at the particular advantages for some people are unable to work due to health problems of claiming the disappearing benefit.
Ranking the criteria for assessing quality of life after disability: evidence for priority shifting among long-term spinal cord injury survivors
- Authors:
- WEITZENKAMP D.A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 5(1), February 2000, pp.57-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on research to identify the criteria spinal cord injury (SCI) survivors use in assessing their quality of life and to examine the concept of priority shifting following SCI. Main outcome measurements used were Flanagan's Quality of Life and Individual Needs Questionnaire, which ranks 15 life priorities in terms of importance and how well personal needs are met in each area. Results found SCI men differed from non-disabled people in how they ranked the determinants of their quality of life. Unlike non-disabled people, for the SCI men neither health nor work were highly correlated to their perceived quality of life. Concludes that SCI men do change the criteria they use in assessing their quality of life and may in fact devalue less attainable goals while increasing the importance of areas in which they might be successful.
Improving communication between health and education for children with chronic illness or physical disability
- Authors:
- MUKHERJEE Suzanne, LIGHTFOOT Jane, SLOPER Patricia
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 164p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report of project based in York intended to improve communication between health and education staff about children with a chronic illness and physical disability. Health and education staff, parents and children were surveyed and an action plan for creating better systems for communication drawn up.
Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness
- Editor:
- AHMAD Waqar I. U.
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 154p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Brings together work on ethnicity, disability, chronic illness and caring. Examines the conceptualisation of disability or chronic illness and the implications of particular definitions; looks at everyday living with a disability or chronic ill health; and examines the role of services in providing support to disabled people and carers. Highlights the continued problems experienced by minority ethnic disabled and chronically ill people and their families.
Better care, higher standards: a charter for long-term care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to provide standards for long term care in South Tyneside, covering issues such as provision of information, assessment and care planning, housing, independence, health care, benefits and complaints procedures.
What does it cost?
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, DEARDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.6.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A new study set out to explore how young people's experience of caring for ill or disabled family members affected their lives in the future. The authors explain their findings.
The information needs of chronically ill or physically disabled children and adolescents
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Bryony, SLOPER Tricia
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 151p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Explores the information needs of children and adolescents with chronic illness or disability, which it divides into medical and psychosocial information needs. An individualistic approach to each user's needs is proposed and different means of conveying information are appraised. Strengths and weaknesses in doctor-young person communication are discussed. The report concludes that young people's information needs should be addressed and deficiencies in meeting the need for psychosocial information can be alleviated by greater awareness on the part of health professionals and by systems to promote contact between young people with the same condition.