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Fully equipped: equipment for older or disabled people
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 102p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
More than four million disabled people use equipment services, which can be gateways to independence and improved quality of life for both users and carers. This report looks at how the service is operating within the NHS. It introduces the service and goes on to focus on these specific areas: orthotic services; prosthetic services; wheelchair and seating services; community equipment services; and audiology services. Concludes with recommendations for the future.
Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee: consultation on DPTAC 2005-07 strategy
- Author:
- DISABLED PERSONS TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Publisher:
- Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) was established in 1986 to provide independent advice to Government on the transport needs of all disabled people (Transport Act 1985). The aim of DPTAC is to ensure that disabled people can go where everyone else goes and can do so easily and without encountering additional barriers or incurring extra costs. It seeks: to firstly provide timely, focused and credible advice to Government on the transport and built environment needs of all disabled people, the advice to be representative of the broad views of disabled people in the United Kingdom on nondevolved issues. Secondly to provide guidance and advice to the transport and built environment industries and others on how best to meet the varying needs of all disabled people, taking account of gender, race, faith, sexuality, age and other relevant factors; and thirdly to ensure that service providers inform disabled people of developments in accessible transport and the built environment. DPTAC wants to learn the views and comments of those with an interest in its work on the form and content of the 2005-2007 Strategy and objectives.
Voluntary sector turns up the volume on disability services
- Author:
- MOORE Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 7.10.04, 2004, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on how three leading charities, the British Red Cross, the Royal National Institute for the Blind, and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, have formed a consortium with the aim of providing disability aids across the country. Examines how the deal could work and why the sector is in need of radical action.
Delivering adaptations: good practice system review checklist
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This checklist is provided to assist partner agencies in a locality working together to deliver an effective adaptation service. It is aimed both at those responsible for planning and designing the system and those responsible for service delivery. It will also be helpful to service users and their advocates in shaping their expectations of the service they receive.
Speak for yourself
- Author:
- FORD James
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 38p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disabled people continue to campaign to get their voices heard and have their views properly represented. People with a communication impairment face an even greater challenge to make themselves understood. This report explains that with the right communication aids disabled people can develop socially and achieve in education and work. In the report disabled people identify good and bad experiences they have had in obtaining and using devices, and recommendations for change are made.
The provision of and support for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in Scotland: equipment and services; a report of a working group of the National Paramedical Advisory Committee
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. National Paramedical Advisory Committee
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Scottish Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 62p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Augmentative and alternative communication includes not only equipment but also the totality of principles, techniques and technologies which may be provided to people with severe speech impairments. This report looks at provision and support for this user group in a Scottish context.
Home comforts: home support for disabled older people
- Author:
- BEATTIE Alistair
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 24p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the needs of older disabled people in London, the care and support they do or do not receive, and at aids and adaptations available from the London Boroughs.
Disabled children: services transport and education
- Authors:
- MELTZER Howard, SMYTH Malcolm, ROBUS Nikki
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 162p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The sixth and final report published following the OPCS survey of disability commission by the DHSS in 1984.
Delivering housing adaptations for disabled people: a good practice guide
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document describes the various statutory duties laid upon both social services and housing authorities in relation to their adaptations service. It draws on identified good practice from local authorities across the country in advising on the key issues about how the service should be organised and the full process of delivery from first contact with a client to the completion of the adaptation. The purpose of an adaptation is to modify disabling environments in order to restore or enable independent living, privacy, confidence and dignity for individuals and their families. It is therefore not primarily a matter of building work, the provision of equipment or otherwise modifying a dwelling, but providing an individualised solution to the problems of people experiencing a disabling environment. The primary purpose of this document is to advise local authorities on how they can establish a first class service which can deliver adaptations to the homes of disabled people in order to meet their needs and statutory entitlements.
Assistive technology: independence and well-being
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper looks in more depth at the role of assistive technology (AT) in supporting independence. It examines the place of AT in the current policy context and describes the current evidence to demonstrate how AT can support independence. It analyses the current obstacles to progress and explains how change can be introduced. New assistive technology can play a vital role in supporting the ways in which millions of older or disabled people can maintain or regain their independence. It also has the potential to modernise the way in which many aspects of health and social care are currently delivered to the benefit of users, carers, service providers and the taxpayer.