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Facilitating stroke care planning through simulation modelling.

, 2010
Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term severe disability. A major difficulty facing stroke care provision in the UK is the lack of service integration between the many authorities, professionals and stakeholders involved in the process.
Barlow, James, Bayer, Steffen, Cox, Benita, Honeyman, Alasdair, Petsoulas, Christina   +4 more
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Adequacy of existing residential care arrangements available for young people with severe physical, mental or intellectual disabilities in Australia [PDF]

Acknowledging that the NDIS alone will not be able to solve the issues faced by young people in nursing homes, this review makes 12 recommendations including establishing a joint taskforce to ensure the recommendations are put in place.
Carol Stewart, Jeanette Radcliffe, Megan Jones, Monika Sheppard, Tasman Larnach   +4 more
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Alaska Veterans Needs Assessment [PDF]

, 2015
The Institute of Social of Economic Research conducted a needs assessment of Alaska Veterans starting in the spring of 2014. Our goal was to identify and measure areas for improvement in providing services and determining the methods to achieve ...
Frazier, Rosyland, Guettabi, Mouhcine
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Translating and transforming care: people with brain injury and caregivers filling in a disability claim form [PDF]

, 2016
This article examines how the Disability Living Allowance claim form, used in the United Kingdom to allocate £13 billion of disability benefits, translates and transforms disability and care.
Ahmad W. I. U., Alex Gillespie, Bowker G. C., Department for Work and Pensions, Ericsson K. A., Farr R. M., Feyerabend P., Garfinkel H., Goffman E., Helen Moore, Jacobs H. E., James W., Linell P., Mead G. H., Oppenheim A. N., Ponsford J., Pudney S., Rosenthal R., Swinglehurst D., Wagoner B., Wood R. L.   +20 more
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Are children with disabilities more likely to be malnourished than children without disabilities? Evidence from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys in 30 countries

BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
Introduction A key Sustainable Development Goal target is to eliminate all forms of malnutrition. Existing evidence suggests children with disabilities are at greater risks of malnutrition, exclusion from nutrition programmes and mortality from severe ...
Hannah Kuper, Xanthe Hunt, Shanquan Chen, Tracey Smythe, Sara Rotenberg   +4 more
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Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability [PDF]

, 2018
The historical relationship between health care professionals and people with disabilities is fraught, a fact all the more troubling in light of the distinctive roles clinicians play in both establishing and responding to that which is considered normal ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael
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The health and well-being of older adults with dual sensory impairment (DSI) in four countries [PDF]

, 2016
Objectives Dual sensory impairment (DSI) is a combination of vision and hearing impairments that represents a unique disability affecting all aspects of a person’s life.
Declercq, Anja, Finne-Soveri, Harriet, Fries, Brant E., Guthrie, Dawn M., Hirdes, John P.   +4 more
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Does Informal Care from Children to their Elderly Parents Substitute for Formal Care in Europe? [PDF]

This paper analyzes the impact of informal care by adult children on the use of long-term care among the elderly in Europe and the effect of the level of the parent’s disability on this relationship. We focus on two types of formal home care that are the
Eric Bonsang
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The Implementation of the NDIS: Who Wins, Who Loses? [PDF]

, 2014
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a major paradigm shift in funding and support for people with disability in Australia. It is a person centered model that has at its core a change in government funding away from service providers direct
Green, Jenny, Mears, Jane
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What Are the Important Health and Well‐Being Outcome Dimensions for Parent Carers of Disabled Children? A Qualitative Study

Health Expectations
Background Patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) are used to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, particularly for subjective health states such as well‐being. A parent carer is an adult primary caregiver for a child with a disability. Parent
Caomhán McGlinchey, Phillip Harniess, Aleksandra J. Borek, Alice Garrood, Annabel McDonald, Fleur Boyle, Stuart Logan, Christopher Morris   +7 more
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