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Rehabilitation in the NHS and social care
- Authors:
- BEAUMONT D.M., MORRIS J.
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Rehabilitation services have probably declined in capacity, but more importantly have changed in character. That is, they are taking place in a greater variety of settings, for example community based rehabilitation suffered from a drive towards acute care in hospital settings, from declining medical involvement due to pressure on geriatricians to take part in general medical emergency work., the shift of rehabilitation into Intermediate Care settings and reduction in specialist inpatient rehabilitation beds. We believe this to be disadvantageous due to the relationship between disease and disability, and the need to optimise medical treatment to support rehabilitation.
Mind, body and school
- Author:
- KENNY Craig
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 17.2.99, 1999, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the pioneering work of nurses at a specialist centre for children with brain injuries and other severe disabilities.
Providing for disabled children in the community in Ukraine after communism: a western perspective
- Author:
- BRIDGE Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 8(2), 2001, pp.2-9.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
This discussion paper has as its focus a Western perspective on community care provided by families for disabled children in Ukraine. This country is of interest in that it is one of the largest of the fifteen states to become independent from the Soviet Union, and to change from communism to a democratic, market economy. Additionally the number of disabled and sick children in Ukraine has increased considerably after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Using material derived from a series of study visits, a picture emerges of courage in adversity, as parents campaign to obtain sponsorship from Western Europe in the deteriorating economic and social conditions of this transition period. Specific attention is drawn to the limited educational and rehabilitation facilities available to disabled children; independence on a medical model of disability and on out-dated, under-researched treatment approaches. However, as is common practice throughout the world, many parent-led self-help groups, some formed before 1991, are actively campaigning for changes in policy and provision so that their children may be included in society. These projects are benefiting from contact with Western ideas about social work and social welfare policy through the development of the School of Social Work at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Concludes that more collaboration is needed between medical, educational and social welfare perspectives to improve the lives of disabled children and their families in Ukraine.