Social Inclusion, 2018 This article examines four European countries (Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) with respect to their degree of disability care personalisation. The approach is embedded in a broader theoretical analysis, which in turn is inspired by
Christoph Tschanz
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Background: This paper explores how implementation and refinement of an early intervention (EI) program for children with delayed development was informed by an iterative, intentional and structured process of measurement.
Dinesh Krishna +24 more
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Aiming Higher: Advancing Public Social Insurance for Long-term Care to Meet the Global Aging Challenge; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 Globally, aging populations are driving the demand for long-term care (LTC) services for a growing number of older people with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Zhanlian Feng, Elena Glinskaya
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Knowledge of learning disabilities: the relationship with choice, duty of care and non-aversive approaches [PDF]
, 2007 The present study examines the relationship between the knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for a learning disability (based on DSM IV criteria), care practices and experience in health care and social care staff.
Higgon, John +3 more
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An audit of the quality of inpatient care for adults with learning disability in the UK [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: To audit patient hospital records to evaluate the performance of acute general and mental health services in delivering inpatient care to people with learning disability and explore the influence of organisational factors on the quality of ...
Burnell, M +9 more
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Criteria of implementing feeding assistance robots in disability care
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2013 This article discusses the entanglement of implementing welfare technology in disability care, and draws on ethnographic observations from a pilot project involving 30 disabled citizens from three different boroughs in Denmark.
Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
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The use of therapeutic untruths by learning disability nursing students [PDF]
, 2020 Background: The use of therapeutic untruths raises a number of ethical issues, which have begun to be explored to some extent, particularly in dementia care services, where their use has been found to be high.
James, Ian +3 more
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Can disability studies contribute to client-centred occupational therapy practice? [PDF]
, 2010 Occupational therapists frequently cite a ‘client-centred’ approach as a fundamental aspect of their practice. However, there are many examples in the narratives of disabled people that suggest that the health and social care services they experience do ...
Collins, Bethan, McCormack, Cathy
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Adding a subjective dimension to an ICF-based disability measure for people with multiple sclerosis: development and use of a measure for perception of disabilities [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVE: The subjective dimension of disability, the perception of disability, is a dimension missing from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), and from health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instruments ...
De Keyser, J.H. +6 more
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Basic movements for postoperative exercise in patients with left ventricular assist devices
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2019 Patients with advanced heart failure refractory to medical therapy can be treated with left ventricular assist devices, implanted to augment or replace left ventricular function.
Massimiliano Polastri +2 more
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