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Helping yourself to a better lifestyle
- Author:
- GALE Len
- Journal article citation:
- Contact, 63, Spring 1990, pp.40-42.
- Publisher:
- Royal Assocation for Disability and Rehabilitation
Describes the Herefordshire Lifestyles Project which enables disabled people to access to resources and services from which to choose according to their individuals needs.
Mainstreaming community based rehabilitation in primary health care in Bosnia Herzegovina
- Author:
- EDMONDS Lorna Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(3), May 2005, pp.293-309.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
There are over 600 million disabled people and over 20% of the world population is impacted by disability. However, the strategies for including disabled people in the process of reform of developing countries have been rarely considered. The paucity of research is striking. Mainstreaming Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina is one example where the needs of disabled people were a development priority and research was conducted to evaluate this experience. The research demonstrated that unlike the pre-war environment, disabled people are increasingly active members of the community. The significance is that the needs of disabled people were ‘targeted’ and CBR was ‘mainstreamed’ in the primary health care system creating opportunities for sustained development. CBR is contributing to the citizenship of disabled people. This partnership project set the stage for the continued development of disability policies. These are important lessons.
Developing a therapy-led community rehabilitation team
- Author:
- SHIELD Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(4), August 1998, pp.160-168.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Closure of a hospital in an area with a high percentage of elderly people created a need for good quality, cost-effective rehabilitation services. This article describes the setting up of a rehabilitation team and centre, and the benefits that it has provided.
Rehabilitation: an old concept in a new policy context
- Author:
- ROBINSON Janice
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(3), June 1998, pp.103-106.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Discusses how inadequate opportunities for rehabilitation have resulted in a distorted system of care and public disquiet about the impact on vulnerable older people and their families. Investment in rehabilitation offers a way out of a vicious circle of increasing demands for care and escalating expenditure. Argues that the system of health and social care needs to be re-shaped to enable older people to regain the independence so often impaired after illness or injury. Health and local authorities face a daunting challenge, but suggests they will make progress if they follow the five-point plan in this article.
Community care: experience overseas
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- County News, 88(3), June 1995, pp.24-25.
Provides an account of a visit to the Princess Basma Centre, a rehabilitation facility for disabled children in Jerusalem.
Community-based rehabilitation: a rapidly growing growing method for supporting people with disabilities
- Author:
- LIGHTFOOT Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 47(4), October 2004, pp.455-468.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is a fast-growing model of providing services to people with disabilities. This article introduces the underlying philosophy and structure of the CBR model; the strengths and weaknesses of the model; and its implications for social workers in the field of disability services throughout the world.
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.
Social rehabilitation:concepts, evidence and practice
- Author:
- MOUNTAIN Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(2), April 2001, pp.8-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The current evidence to support rehabilitation commissioned and/or provided by social services gives some promising indications. However, it also reveals an urgent need for more and better information about what works best and for whom.
Foucault and the government of disability
- Editors:
- TREMAIN Shelley, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 340p.
- Place of publication:
- Ann Arbour, MI
This collection of essays considers the relevance of Foucault to the phenomenon of disability, and the significance of disability studies to understanding and interpreting Foucault. This collection is a response to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating; hence, contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education.
How do carers of disabled children cope?: the Ugandan perspective
- Authors:
- HARTLEY S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child: Care, Health and Development, 31(2), March 2005, pp.167-180.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) was recommended by the World Health Organization in 1989 as the strategy for improving the quality of life of disabled people and their families, which should be built on local knowledge and practices. In Uganda, there is no documentation on how services relate to local knowledge. There is a need for increased knowledge and understanding of how family members cope with their disabled children to provide the basis for future service development. A qualitative phenomenological design was used to develop an in-depth understanding of how Ugandan families cope with their disabled children in their own communities. Data were collected from 52 families with children with disabilities from five impairment groups, through interviews and observations in three districts of Uganda, one urban, two rural. There are many children with disabilities who are included, loved and cared for by their families. A lot of time and money is spent on seeking a cure. The extended family systems are breaking down and the main burden of caring for a disabled family member generally falls on one, sometimes two, female carers. Male members act as gatekeepers, controlling the key decisions concerning the child and the associated resources. CBR should move the focus of their services away from the disabled individual towards the whole family. It is important to provide accurate information about causes and prevention of impairments, the realities of a cure, support and respite for the female carers, and opportunities for the involvement of fathers. This methodology is a practical mechanism for collecting data that have the potential to positively influence and guide the development of CBR practice in the locality. At a conceptual level the data support the philosophy of inclusion, social integration, the importance of trust and respect, and utilizing a holistic approach. These are eminently transferable to other settings.