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The family hope
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.12.94, 1994, p.24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Family Fund has been helping families with disabled children for 21 years. Considers its achievements.
Disability: an emerging global challenge
- Author:
- SEIPEL Michael M.O.
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 37(2), April 1994, pp.165-178.
- Publisher:
- Sage
It is estimated that about one out of ten persons in the world is in one way or another disabled. The causes of disability vary, but the impact of disability on the individual and society is universal. The data examined reveal a strong connection between disability and socioeconomic disadvantage. This article argues that strategies for preventing disability and integrating disabled persons into the community are the most important approaches to addressing the problems of disability.
On queue
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.4.94, 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Ever-increasing numbers of people waiting for occupational therapy in Newcastle resulted in the formation of a short term task force to tackle the problem. Finds out what measures were used.
Equipped for change: disabled living centres and the social market
- Authors:
- PARNELL Richard, LUPTON Carol
- Publisher:
- Disabled Living Centres Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 136p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Companion volume to "Equipped for life", this volume highlights the work of Disabled Living Centres and the part they have to play in the future fabric of social care. Includes sections on: Disabled Living Centres and social policy in the 1990's; Centres and their services (including case studies of 9 Centres); users of Centres' services; and Centres in a changing world.
Disabling housing: the hidden housing needs of disabled people
- Author:
- SUFFOLK COASTAL AND MID-SUFFOLK DISABILITY HOUSING RESEARCH GROUP
- Publisher:
- Suffolk Coastal and Mid-Suffolk Disability Housing Research Group
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 40p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Ipswich
Survey seeking out the hidden housing needs of disabled people in Suffolk.
Encouraging a paradigm shift in services for people with disabilities
- Author:
- COCKS Errol
- Publisher:
- Edith Cowan University. Faculty of Health and Human Sciences. Centre for the Dev
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Perth
Paper discussing the belief that human services, particularly services for people with disabilities, are currently dominated by a "modern formal human services paradigm". Because of some of the assumptions inherent in this paradigm and because of broad societal dislocation, it is argued that modern formal human services operate dysfuntionally and contain elements which are inimical to the interests of both vulnerable people and of society. Provides a critique and analysis of the dominant paradigm and presents an alternative model of service provision.
The shape of things to come: user-led social services
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 75p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at opportunities for user's to become more involved in services. Examines features associated with organisations run by service users and asks whether these features can be taken on by statutory and independent service providers.
Adapt and survive
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.10.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people experience great difficulties in obtaining subsidies for housing renovation and adaptation, and if they manage to get a grant they then suffer long delays before the work is actually done. Assesses the prevailing climate.
The needs of physically disabled people aged 16-65 years and service usage in Grampian
- Authors:
- SUTHERLAND Anne, CHESSON Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 54(5), May 1994, pp.171-176.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reports part of a two-phase investigation of disability sponsored by Grampian SWD. Following a questionnaire survey of about 1 in 40 of the region's households, 212 people with disabilities aged 16-65 were interviewed during 1989/1990 to obtain an in-depth understanding of their perceptions of current and past service provision.
Anti-discriminatory practice: getting things right
- Author:
- HILL Millee
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.3.94, 1994, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Black disabled women are marginalised more than most when it comes to service provision. Calls for changes in practice.