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Looking forward: a foundation for planning services for people with physical disabilities; key messages from respondents
- Authors:
- WIGAN. Social Services Department, WIGAN AND BOLTON HEALTH AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Wigan. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- Wigan
Brief report presenting information from a larger research study.
Intentional communities of attachment: summary
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
'Intentional communities of attachment' are communities where people with a disability and non-disabled people live together outside of professionalised care arrangements or family obligation. They can demonstrate a very different approach to meeting the needs and aspirations of disabled people. The experiences of such communities can provide important indications for the practice and development of community care generally, according to a study by the author.
Looking forward: a foundation for planning services for people with physical disabilities; a joint commissioned report on the prevalence and needs of adults with physical disabilities aged 18-64 in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
- Author:
- HORROCKS Cynthia
- Publisher:
- Wigan. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 201p.
- Place of publication:
- Wigan
Research report.
The reach of disability benefits: an examination of the disability living allowance
- Authors:
- DALY Michael, NOBLE Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 18(1), 1996, pp.37-51.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Key objectives in the 1992 reform of disability benefits were improvements to the scope of benefits and better targeting of funds to those most in need. Questions the success of the disability living allowance (DLA) in achieving these aims.
Benefit fails mentally ill people
- Author:
- WHITELEY Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.9.96, 1996, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how the Disability Living Allowance is failing people with mental illnesses by focusing on people with physical disabilities.
The use of non-standardised assessments in occupational therapy with children who have disabilities: a perspective
- Author:
- HONG Chia Swee
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(8), August 1996, pp.363-364.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Explores the main issues in the use of non-standardised assessments in occupational therapy with children who have disabilities.
Fight on all sides
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.8.96, 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Black disabled women have special needs which are not being met. Argues that it is time social services stopped being colour blind and supported this embattled minority.
Internal affairs
- Author:
- PATTERSON Lynne
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.6.96, 1996, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reflects on the worries facing her when she needed the services of colleagues in her social services department.
Changes in health, mortality, and disability and their impact on long-term care needs
- Authors:
- MANTON Kenneth G., STALLARD Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 7(3/4), 1996, pp.25-52.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines changes in the health of the U.S. elderly population using the 1982, 1994, and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys. Both disability prevalence and active life expectancy changes are examined. Second, advances in treatments that improved prognoses and were cost-effective are examined. Third, changes in Medicare use-especially when biomedical advances allow some long-term care needs to be met by interventions in early disease stages - are considered. Results suggest that, while the amount of long term care services needed will increase rapidly, the types and amounts of services used by the U.S. elderly population will undergo significant change.
Negotiating identities, negotiating environments: an interpretation of the experiences of students with disabilities
- Author:
- LOW Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(2), 1996, pp.235-248.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores the experiences of nine students with disabilities pursuing degrees at a large Canadian university. An ethnographic approach was followed using face-to-face, unstructured interviews and a focus group to generate data. The analysis focuses on how these students negotiate disabled and non-disabled identities while negotiating the physical environment of the university campus. Argues that these negotiatory processes are necessarily interconnected and inherently contradictory.