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Oftedahl, Linda. "Hopelessness and hours of services received by elderly and disabled clients." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001oftedahll.pdf.
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Kersten, Paula. "Needs and outcome indicators for rehabilitation services." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285884.
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White, Elizabeth A. "An investigation into the requirements for an effective district-based wheelchair services." Thesis, University of Kent, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360978.
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Easterling, Calvin Henry. "The Developmentally Disabled Elderly in Canada: Access to Health Care and Social Services." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332746/.
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The accessibility, predictors, and use of health care and social services among developmentally disabled elderly adults in Canada were examined using a nationally representative social survey. The first research hypothesis is that the independent variables will contribute significantly to the prediction of the dependent variables. A second hypothesis is that the slope of any given independent variable will not equal zero. The results of this research show that the illness (need) variables are the most predictive correlate of the utilization of health care and social services. The predisposing variables have secondary explanatory power, with the enabling variables accounting for the least amount of variance. The hypotheses were tested by step-wise multiple regression analysis using SPSS-X.
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Clarke, Karen Margaret. "The psychological well-being of physically disabled adults in rural Tyrone." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365941.
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Dietz, Tracy L. "Predictors of Health Care and Social Service Utilization and Perceived Need Among the Disabled Elderly in Canada." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500776/.
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The world has experienced a tremendous growth in its elderly population. With the aging of the population, policy makers are concerned about the health of these elderly as well as their utilization of health care and social services and perceived need for additional services. The Canadian elderly population is similar to other elderly populations in that a few tend to be the heaviest users of the available services. The predictors of this utilization behavior and perceived need primarily include need variables, such as the number of limitations of daily living -- both ADLs and IADLs, and functional limitations. In addition, enabling variables, such as income, work activity and geographic region of residence were also found to be significant.
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Clear, Mike, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and of Health Humanities and Social Ecology Faculty. "Public discourse personal reality: disablement and a re-search for caring culture." THESIS_FHHS_xxx_Clear_M.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/34.
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This thesis explored the lives of carers of disabled people, and the research process itself within the collaborative framework of a support group. It used as its data sources an extensive review of the literature, interview transcripts and fieldnotes from carers, participants from the local service system, and the records of meetings and activities of the Group over 5 years. The study highlights the way public discourse on deinstitutionalisation has so captured our consciousness on care of disabled people that the personal reality of care in the family home has been effectively lost. It traces the disordering discourses of disablement and their link with constructions of caring. The personal reality of care and the isolating nature of this union of caring and disablement was the primary research focus. This may be characterised by social loss, and a lifestyle bound up with disablement which involves a search for a supportive or caring culture. The isolation and exclusion of carers occurs behind the screens of apparently caring institutions such as marriage, family, community and the service system. In the search for a caring cuture carers find their lives bound up with that of state and service systems which offer some hope of a supportive response. Instead they invariably find that the culture is an alien one. The research informed attempts of the Group to explore improved forms of caring culture, and more relevant public policy approaches. The study attempted to bridge the gap between the process of knowledge construction and discourse, and the material experience of carersDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Priestley, Mark. "Disability, values and quality : a case study in Derbyshire." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/486/.
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Cultural representations of disability reveal a cultural value system which characterises the disadvantage experienced by disabled people in terms of personal tragedy, the impaired body and otherness. The reproduction of these disabling values in the dominant discourses of British policy making have resulted in a mode of welfare production based on 'care', individualism and segregation. More recently, implementation of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act has tended to consolidate rather than challenge this policy tradition. By contrast, the emergence of a strong disabled peoples' movement offers significant forms of resistance to dominant policy discourses through the development of social models of disability. In particular, Centres for Independent/Integrated Living have promoted an alternative agenda for enabling community support systems based on the values of participation, social integration and equality. Disabled people's organisations in Derbyshire were at the forefront of these developments in Britain. Their attempts to implement integrated living solutions within the policy framework of community care demonstrate significant conflicts over the definition of quality in service processes and outcomes. The study employs co-participatory methods to involve local service users and disabled people's organisations in exploring these issues within an emancipatory research paradigm. The data from this research highlights specific barriers to policy change and suggests that effective self-organisation within a cohesive social movement is a necessary pre-requisite for the liberation of disabled people. Ultimately, the agenda for change promoted by the disabled peoples' movement challenges not only attitudes and values but also the social relations of production and reproduction within a capitalist economy.
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Brandon, Toby. "Power and disabled people : a comparative case study of three community care services in London." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1589/.
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The main research question addressed is how the perceptions and experiences of people with disabilities around what is termed 'quality of life' are enhanced or modified by differing service delivery systems. This approach is based on the assumption that people with disabilities have unique knowledge about services, providing a core understanding of the power around decision making and its effects on their lives. The perspectives and methodology used are underlined by concepts of user autonomy, social control, independence, interdependence, advocacy, respect and citizenship. The case study methodology provides an in-depth focus on both 'positive' and 'negative' ethics in social science. The research area was examined within a multi-professional framework and aimed at a triangulation of perspectives from participant observation, user and professional interviews, tailored vignettes and organisational documentation from services formally designed to empower their users following the latest government policy. The research, following the principles of grounded theory, examined to what extent care management and advocacy, residential support and service brokerage and a more traditional day centre system were achieving these primary aims. The qualitative data generated by the research gives rise to a socio-organisational power analysis of 'service forums'. The service forums are constructed from 'service postures' and 'service cultures'. Service posture refers to the set of formal values and beliefs owned by an organisation. The service posture for the residential consortium is summarised as 'normality', the day centre's as 'respect' and the care management organisation's as 'advocacy'. The organisations' service cultures are the unofficial presentation of the service, shown to come from the service posture, either being complementary, its antitheses, or quite separate. It is clear that the behaviour of the workers and the structure of the three organisations studied have both distinct and profound effects on their users' senses and experiences of power. The conclusion explores the elements of disability, choice and decision making which make up the socio-organisational power structures with respect to each organisation. Finally ways in which a participatory service delivery system could be constructed are considered in the context of training, policy and organisational structure.
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Rolph, Sheena Elizabeth. "The history of community care for people with learning difficulties in Norfolk, 1930-1980." [n.p.], 1999. http://library7.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=83.
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Theakstone, Dianne-Dominique. "A comparative analysis of the governance mechanisms in two Centres for Inclusive Living that enhance disabled people's life choices." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27569.
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This study examined disabled people’s access to independent living in Scotland and Norway. At the time of the field work for this research in 2012, the literature revealed no comparable social enquiry combining the concepts of citizenship, independent living and governance. Within disability studies, independent living denotes a perspective that recognises the interconnected nature of life areas that affect lived experiences of disablement and inclusion of disabled citizens. From the independent living movement, Centres for Inclusive Living emerged as unique governance structures with full service-user involvement and run by disabled people for disabled people. This study focused upon to what extent the organisational governance structures in the Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living (GCIL) and Uloba Centre for Independent Living (Uloba) in Norway facilitate or impede disabled people’s access to independent living. The methodology adopted a mixed methods approach. The central method involved organisational case studies with GCIL and Uloba. This enabled an in-depth qualitative exploration through semi-structured interviews with the case study employees, service-user/co-owners and key experts within each country. In addition, an online survey was distributed to other organisations that operated within the disability field. The analytical framework used an integration of the social relational model of disability (Thomas, 1999) and meso level governance analysis (Lowe, 2004). The social relational model of disability provided structural (macro) and agency (micro) level interpretations and an emphasis on psychosocial elements of disability. It also enabled the synergy of a theory of impairment alongside a theory of disability. Meso (organisational) governance analysis focused attention on the connections between organisations in society. This focus revealed the lateral relationships with other meso level bodies, macro institutions and micro individual action. Research participants prioritised the areas of peer support, accessible housing and personal assistance. Peer support was found to take both informal and formal manifestations and acted as a foundation for the other two areas of independent living. The findings highlighted that Centres for Inclusive Living provide facilitation for access to independent living across macro, meso and micro tiers of society. In particular, empowerment, peer support and user led governance formed key strategies that enhanced disabled people’s access to independent living in Scotland and Norway.
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Ilkhani, Mahnaz. "The inpatient hospital care delivery to disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/362860/.
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Introduction: Research suggests that parents of disabled children are dissatisfied with inpatient care delivery to their children. Objectives: - To explore the inpatient care of disabled children - To determine the rewards and challenges of working with disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs - To analyse contemporary nursing curricula in order to ascertain areas of teaching pertinent to disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs - To consider compliance with policy benchmarks for disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs Methods: This project is part of a service evaluation for disabled children and their families that utilises different approaches. Three components of the project were designed: 1. To conduct focus group meetings using the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) with nursing staff 2. To conduct an in-depth content analysis of contemporary nursing curricula 3. To conduct an audit of compliance with policy benchmarks for disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs Results: Four themes have been generated from the integrated data analysis of the current service evaluation, namely: effective communication, provision of training, provision of equipment, unfavourable environment. Conclusion: This service evaluation has revealed that nursing staff need to improve their knowledge and expertise in the field of communication with disabled children and their families, and also enhance the quality of care delivered to this population. Additionally, it is vital that more equipment be provided, and the number of expert nursing staff caring for disabled children increased, in order to improve the quality of care for disabled children and their families.
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Clear, Mike. "Public discourse personal reality: disablement and a re-search for caring culture." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/34.
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This thesis explored the lives of carers of disabled people, and the research process itself within the collaborative framework of a support group. It used as its data sources an extensive review of the literature, interview transcripts and fieldnotes from carers, participants from the local service system, and the records of meetings and activities of the Group over 5 years. The study highlights the way public discourse on deinstitutionalisation has so captured our consciousness on care of disabled people that the personal reality of care in the family home has been effectively lost. It traces the disordering discourses of disablement and their link with constructions of caring. The personal reality of care and the isolating nature of this union of caring and disablement was the primary research focus. This may be characterised by social loss, and a lifestyle bound up with disablement which involves a search for a supportive or caring culture. The isolation and exclusion of carers occurs behind the screens of apparently caring institutions such as marriage, family, community and the service system. In the search for a caring cuture carers find their lives bound up with that of state and service systems which offer some hope of a supportive response. Instead they invariably find that the culture is an alien one. The research informed attempts of the Group to explore improved forms of caring culture, and more relevant public policy approaches. The study attempted to bridge the gap between the process of knowledge construction and discourse, and the material experience of carers
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Wong, Lai-yung Emily, and 黃麗容. "Assistance to the disabled in urban China: a case study of Foshan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31248251.
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Tam, Sut-lai Shirley. "A study of whether public transport services have helped to achieve the goals of "equal opportunities" and "full participation" for the disabled in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19905129.
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Chipps, Esther M. "Influence of diagnoses, race, medicaid enrollment status on health service utilization among the seriously mentally disabled population." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054149270.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xxi, 338 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-336). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Damon, Michelle Lynette. "Management of volunteers at the Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/357.
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Pownall, Jaycee Dawn. "Health knowledge and expected outcomes of risky behaviour : a comparative study of non-disabled adolescents and young people with intellectual and physical disabilities." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1701/.
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Research exploring the physical health needs of people with intellectual disabilities is increasing. Unfortunately, first hand accounts from young people with intellectual disabilities remain largely absent. This is despite the fact that many of these individuals, albeit to a lesser extent than their non-disabled peers, are engaging in behaviours that can have a potentially negative impact on their health status (poor dietary habits, excessive alcohol consumption, and risky sexual behaviour). While knowledge alone does not always result in the adoption of healthier behavioural choices, it is an important prerequisite if young people are too keep themselves safe. In addition, understanding what young people know about health is pivotal to the formulation and development of appropriate education programmes and services. The limited research that does exist suggests that young people with intellectual disabilities have low levels of health knowledge, particularly in relation to sexual health and sexuality. Whereas public health messages are widely available concerning topics such as healthy eating and alcohol, information regarding sexual health is less accessible, owing to it being a private area of people’s lives. Much of our social/sexual development is largely experiential and gained through informal routes, such as interacting with peers. Yet the social networks of young people with intellectual disabilities may be compromised, which could partly account for the low levels of sexual knowledge reported. In support of this, sexual knowledge is also limited in young people with physical disabilities, another socially excluded group. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to further our understanding of how key features of social exclusion - impoverished social networks and access to sources of health information and experience - may impact upon young people with disabilities’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in relation to healthy eating, alcohol, pregnancy/contraception and HIV/AIDS. A substantial part of the research process was concerned with the development and piloting of appropriate methods with which to address these aims. Through structured and semi-structured questionnaires and vignette-based methodology, data from over 100 young people, aged 16-25, has been analysed and interpreted. Three groups of young people took part in the study, those with i) Intellectual disabilities (ID), ii) Physical disabilities (PD), and iii) typically developing, non-disabled (ND). With regards to health knowledge, the ID group had the poorest scores on the healthy eating and alcohol scales. However, the largest differences between the groups were related to health issues considered to be more personal and private, such as pregnancy and contraception, with both groups of young people with disabilities having lower levels of sexual health knowledge than their non-disabled peers. Thus, deficits in sexual knowledge did not just appear to be the result of the ID group’s cognitive deficits. Moreover, content analyses of open-ended questions on the questionnaire showed that all three groups held a surprising number of misconceptions about sexuality. It was also notable that young people with ID reported discussing sexual issues with friends and family less frequently than their non-disabled peers and reported being more reliant upon formal sources of sex education, such as that received through school or college. In addition, when participants with intellectual and physical disabilities were asked about how others would react to them drinking excessive amounts of alcohol and being open to a possible sexual encounter, using vignettes, they anticipated more negative attitudes from their friends for engaging in these potentially risky behaviours then their non-disabled peers. Although the majority of young people with disabilities also reported that their parents would disapprove of their actions, in contrast to their non-disabled peers, most of the young people with disabilities said that their parents’ views would matter to them. This research has highlighted the importance of people’s unique learning and socialisation experiences in shaping not only their health knowledge, but also their attitudes and beliefs. A number of implications for health education and for professionals working with both individuals with disabilities and their families are outlined. New avenues for research are also suggested.
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Rall, Bethany Ann. "Effect of recreation and leisure on the life quality of older adults with developmental disabilities." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2359.
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The purpose of this study is to examine improved life quality indicators of older adults with developmental disabilties who are actively participating in the Senior Facilitation Program, a program designed for seniors with developmental disabilities which allows them to make individual choices about their leisure pursuits.
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Laipčienė, Vilhelmina. "Socialinio darbo organizavimas neįgaliesiems bei senyvo amžiaus asmenims." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100707_143132-23966.
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Vykstant demografiniams pokyčiams: mažas gimstamumas, jaunimo emigracija, šeimos transformacija, didėja socialinės pagalbos poreikis pažeidžiamoms visuomenės grupėms, ypač neįgaliems bei senyvo amžiaus asmenims, kurie dėl negalios ar ligos negali pilnai savimi pasirūpinti. Lietuvos Statistikos departamento duomenimis, Lietuvoje, kaip ir kitose Europos Sąjungos valstybėse, kasmet vis didesnę dalį sudaro 60 metų ir vyresni žmonės. Ši tendencija turi polinkį didėti. Zarasų mieste, kaip ir visoje Lietuvoje, amžiaus struktūros pokyčiai ryškūs - vyksta gyventojų senėjimas: net 26 proc. Zarasų rajono gyventojų yra pagyvenę ir senyvo amžiaus, dar 11 proc. sudaro neįgalieji. Šioms žmonių grupėms ypač svarbi yra socialinė pagalba. Socialinių paslaugų organizavimo įstatymai suteikia vietos savivaldybių specialistams teisę nustatyti paslaugų teikimo lygį, vertinti poreikius, atsižvelgiant į vietinius standartus. Magistro darbe yra apžvelgti pagrindiniai teisės aktai, reglamentuojantys socialinių paslaugų organizavimą bei teikimą, išanalizuota teorinė socialinių paslaugų samprata ir ištirtas jų poreikis Zarasų rajone senyvo amžiaus ir negalią turintiems asmenims, įvertinant teikiamų paslaugų grįžtamąjį ryšį. Tiriamojoje dalyje naudojant anketinę apklausą išanalizuoti socialinių paslaugų kokybiniai rodikliai ir įvertinta ekspertų nuomonė apie socialinių paslaugų poreikį Zarasų rajone.Rapid demographic changes in the country: low birth rates, emigration of youth and transformation of family, increase needs for the social support of the vulnerable groups of our society, particularly disabled and elderly persons who cannot fully care for themselves because of their disability or illness. According to the information of the Department of Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania, the proportion of 60 year-old and older people is increasing each year in Lithuania, as well as in the other EU countries. This trend has a tendency to increase. In Zarasai, as in the whole Lithuania, changes of the age structure of population are moving in the direction of aging. 26 percents of the population of Zarasai district are the elderly, 11 percents of the population are people with disabilities. Social assistance is important especially for this group of people. In the field of organization of the social service, the legislation gives the right to determine the level of services, assess needs, according to the local standards, to the local professionals of municipalities. This graduate paper represents a theoretical analysis of social services and research on the requirement of such services for elderly and disabled persons in Zarasai district, taking account of feedback. The paper reviews the main legal acts, which regulate the organization of social services and their rendering. There are the evaluation of the quality indicators of the social services, which are made... [to full text]
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Shepherd, Mark Stephen. "Recognizing adult learning disabilities." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3029.
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The purpose of this project was to develop aids and strategies for identifying and assisting adult students with learning disabilities. Using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV 1994). The project addresses specific descriptions for identifying traits, behaviors, and characteristics in the recognition of: dyslexia; color blindness, tic disorders, Tourette's syndrome, scotopic sensitivity syndrome, behavior disorders, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), aphasic disorders, and autistic disorders.
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Freidel, Charles Robinson. "A survey on work experiences of practicing social workers who are disabled." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1293.
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Wazakili, Margaret. "Paradox of risk: sexuality and HIV/AIDS among young people with physical disabilities in Nyanga, South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3259_1259748176.
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The current study aimed to describe the paradox of risk through an exploration of the experiences and perceptions of sexuality and HIV/AIDS among physically disabled young people in Nyanga, South Africa. This is against the background that AIDS has become a national and global crisis, which requires all people to participate in efforts to contain the pandemic. Yet literature indicates that young people with disabilities are not participating in such efforts. There is also an assumption, that physically disabled young people do not experience challenges in expressing their sexuality and accessing HIV/AIDS prevention services, to the same extent as other disability groups such as the blind and those with intellectual disabilities. Hence there was a need to explore disabled young people&rsquo
s own understanding of risk and the factors that hinder or support their participation in existing sexuality education and HIV/AIDS prevention programmes. It was also important for this group to suggest ways in which they may participate in such programmes.
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Anderson, Linda Adele. "Feedback as a strategy for increasing the participation of consumers in the design, implementation, and evaluation of outpatient treatment programs for the chronic mentally disabled." Scholarly Commons, 1987. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2133.
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Utilizing clients in decision-making, advocacy, and service delivery roles within the treatment environment is one means of providing the chronic mentally disabled with opportunities for participatory social roles, choice and control. However, client deficiencies of skill, experience, and motivation are suggested to be barriers to the successful accomplishment .of this purpose. Strategies are needed to overcome these barriers. Feedback has been shown to be an effective, low-cost tool for increasing accomplishment in work settings.
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of feedback in increasing the independent participation of a mental health consumer advisory group. This was investigated utilizing a multiple baseline design across the three behaviors required to fulfill the group's functions. A structured agenda, including all necessary tasks was also introduced for each of the three behaviors.
While inclusion of a task as an agenda item was found to be sufficient to assure a high level of participation, consistency of this high level was increased with feedback. As the study progressed, the percentage of consumer generated tasks on the agenda increased.
Results suggest that while this mental health consumer
group initially lacked the skills and knowledge to specify the tasks required to fulfill its functions when the tasks were specified, the group generally performed them with a high level of independent participation. This study also suggests that, with experience, skills and knowledge increased resulting in increased consumer group independence in specifying the tasks required to structure the agenda and fulfill its roles.
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Patel, Pratima. "Disability and difference : the experience of South Asian disabled children, young people and their parents and their access to service provision." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4236.
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Šiurkutė, Raimonda. "Judėjimo negalios asmenų požiūris į gaunamas socialines paslaugas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120809_134601-62014.
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Darbe nagrinėjamas judėjimo negalios asmenų požiūris į gaunamas socialines paslaugas. Pristatomi tyrimo rezultatai, kurie atskleidžia su kokiomis funkcionavimo problemomis susiduria judėjimo negalios asmenys, kokios socialinės paslaugos jiems yra reikšmingiausios bei atskleidžiamas neįgaliųjų ryšys su visuomeninėmis neįgaliųjų organizacijomis. Naudotas kiekybinis tyrimo metodas, renkant duomenis anketinės apklausos būdu.The paper discusses the standpoint of persons with moving disoders to social services. The results of study are presented the functioning problems of persons with moving disorders also excepted the most important social services of persons with moving disorders. What is more, are discovered the relation of disabled people character with social organizations of disabled people. Used a quantitative research method, data collection by questionnaire.
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Deal, Mark. "Attitudes of disabled people toward other disabled people and impairment groups." Thesis, City, University of London, 2006. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17416/.
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This research set-out to: a) investigate attitudes of disabled people (adults) toward other disabled people; and, b) attitudes of disabled people toward different impairment groups. Comparative data from a non-disabled sample was also collected. Two new attitude rating scales were developed for this research: the General Attitude Scale Toward Disabled People (GASTDP) and the Attitude Toward Impairment Scale (A TIS). Both scales achieved acceptable levels of internal and external reliability. Positive attitudes toward disabled people were found from both the disabled (M = 41.08; n = 193) and non-disabled samples (M = 39.29; n = 120). However, a hierarchy of impairment also appears to exist, with the disabled sample producing a rank ordering of most accepted to least of Deaf, Arthritis, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, HIV/AIDS, Down's Syndrome and Schizophrenia. The nondisabled sample rank ordering was the same for five of the seven impairment groups, with only Cerebral Palsy and HIV / AIDS being placed in reverse order. The GASTDP contains two sub-scales (Subtle and Blatant Prejudice subscales). Statistically significant results between the two sub-scales were found for both the disabled and non-disabled samples, suggesting people tend to hold subtle forms of prejudice toward disabled people. The discussion therefore utilises the term aversive disablism, based on aversive racism. This theory argues that whilst people may be reluctant to express negative attitudes toward disabled people, they may also support policies that are disablist, i.e. segregated housing. The contact hypothesis, whereby contact with members of a minority group influence attitudes, was not supported by the data. This thesis recommends further research into subtle forms of prejudice toward disabled people from an in-group perspective and attitudes toward different impairment groups.
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Fu, S. (Siqi). "Disabled people and E-inclusion." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201504031314.
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The fast developing technologies can benefit disabled people from many ways. However, it also formed new gap to them and caused their lives to be marginalized by the digital society. The purpose of this research was to find out issues and problems disabled people meet in the e-Society.
A literature study was conducted as the research method by trying to follow the principles of systematic literature review method. 51 articles were collected from the online publication database to support this research.
The results found out that the reasons caused the exclusion of disabled people are because of the issues of affordability, impairments of disabled people and social phenomenon. The price of mainstream technologies in the market is not affordable to the majority number of disabled people since the low employment rate and low income level keep most of them living in poverty. On one hand, the impairments of disabled people not only affect their lives and works, but also limited their ability to have the access to various technologies. On the other hand, the design of technologies has not fully covered the needs of disabled users, which causes many challenges and problems during the experiment of technologies. Moreover, due to the average low level of education, disabled people are lacking of technical knowledge in how to use ICT, especially in the group of female and senior people with disabilities.
The most important finding in this research paper demonstrates that more than half of the articles mentioned the issue of lacking awareness in disabled people. The situation of exclusion of disabled people in today’s digital world can be changed if the whole society could pay more attention to their challenges and problems.
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Lamb, Callum Douglas. "Mobility system for disabled people." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997.
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Hudson, M. H. "Disabled people and labour market disadvantage." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604719.
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This dissertation considers how and why the labour market disadvantage of disabled people persists. Unpacking debates about how disabled people and labour market disadvantage can be conceptualised it reviews how theoretical insights from labour economics and sociology/disability studies can enrich a social model of disability. Drawing on the concepts of social claims and capabilities, the main task becomes one of exploring how a range of social actors and institutions are involved in enabling or constraining the capabilities that may facilitate the economic functioning of disabled people. Having noted the diversity embodied in the social category disabled people the emphasis is on capturing at least some of this diversity. This is done by exploring the experiences of people in the communities in which they live their everyday lives within the changing context of the labour market and public policy. The research uses an empirical base of material drawn from two localities in East London and Greater Manchester. It is interview based developing case studies at a number of levels: employed and non-employed disabled people, local employment projects and support services and public and private sector employers. Issues around the benefit system, and economic security, emerge as particularly prominent in the lives of the non-employed. Via an exploration of policy and practice, the quality of and balance between supply and demand-side policies that are ostensibly geared towards moderating the incidence and experience of labour market disadvantage are questioned. In so doing, there is criticism of the accounting framework that underpins capitalist employment relations and public policy . In concludes that both the supply and demand sides of the labour market are of fundamental importance in nourishing capabilities. There is a need to develop a policy framework that has a focus on how capabilities can be enabled with more pro-active measures to acknowledge and address inequalities of circumstance and the desire of disabled people to participate.
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Young, Sadie. "Personal constructs of intellectually disabled people." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262355.
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The main focus of this thesis is to investigate the mental worlds of intellectually disabled people. It is intended to provide information about how members of this population construe their environments and how recent changes in the philosophy of care have affected their construct systems. Personal construct theory is used as the model that underpins the studies in the thesis and a modified version of repertory grid technique is developed and used to explore physical and social aspects of each subject's environment. After a pilot study was conducted to establish the viability of using modified rep grid techniques with this population, a longitudinal study over a four year period investigated the social constructs of 15 intellectually disabled residents. Eight were still in an institution at the end of the study and seven had moved into the community during that period. A comparison group of eight staff were sampled at the beginning of the longitudinal study. Information is made available concerning the size and complexity of each subject's construct system. It was found that the size and content of the construct systems of intellectually disabled people is limited relative to the comparison group and does not change significantly over four years. construct systems were analysed using two computerbased programs that solved the patterns of interrelationships and a graphic presentation of the network of significant correlations between constructs was completed. It was found that the graphic presentation was adequate for the intellectually disabled respondents but not for the comparison group. No difference was found between the community-based group of intellectually disabled people and those still resident in the hospital after four years. A further study with 17 intellectually disabled people, parents and non-parents, found no difference in their construct systems of children. These results are discussed in the context of the present philosophy and practice of normalisation and social role valorisation.
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Salgård, Kajsa, and Josefina Raza. "Aid for Disabled People in India." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-143117.
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Indien är ett utvecklingsland med en ekonomisk tillväxt som ökar inom industri- och tjänstesektorn. Tyvärr verkar inte tillväxt och utveckling nå ut till funktionshindrade och fattiga människor. Under två månader genomfördes en fältstudie i norra delen av Indien; ett arbete som inleddes i Sverige där systemet för hjälpmedel undersöktes. Studien i Indien innehöll intervjuer, en användarstudie och flera besök för att undersöka situationen och starta utvecklingen av en prototyp. Målet var att utveckla en rullstol som lämpar sig för funktionshindrade i Indien och skapa en prototyp för användartestning. Produktutveckling ägde rum under hela projektet; målgrupp och krav på rullstolen kom fram genom brainstorming. Undersökningarna och fältstudien visade att det är en betydande skillnad mellan hur systemet för funktionshindrade personer fungerar i Indien jämfört med Sverige. De flesta av användarna i Indien hade en trehjuling som i grunden är en rullstol men med ett hjul i fronten och annan styrning. Som förbättringar ville användarna erhålla bättre ergonomi och säkerhet. Det slutliga konceptet har en ergonomiskt riktig sittställning, konstruktionen är lägre och mindre än den befintliga trehjulingen. Material för prototypen inhandlades på en marknad och en cykelverkstad i Kanpur. Prototypen jämfördes med den befintliga trehjulingen som är den typ av rullstol som kom närmast konstruktionen av prototypen. Denna jämförelse visade att prototypen är mindre, har ett sänkt underrede och en ny teknik för styrning. Nästa steg i utvecklingen skulle vara att expandera fältstudien, konstruera nästa prototyp och utföra ytterligare användartester.India is a developing country with an economic growth that is increasing in the industry and service sector. Unfortunately the growth and the development do not seem to reach out to disabled and poor people. During two months a field study was conducted in the northern part of India; the work begun in Sweden where the system of aid was investigated. Research in India contained interviews, a user study and several visits to investigate the situation there and to start a development of a prototype. The aim was to develop a wheelchair suitable for disabled people in India and to create a prototype for user testing. Product development took place throughout the project; target group and demands on the wheelchair was formed through brainstorming. The investigations and field study showed that it is a significant difference between how the system concerning disabled people and aid works in India in comparison with Sweden. Most of the users in India had a tricycle, which is basically a wheelchair with one wheel in the front and with different steering. As improvements, better ergonomics and safety was asked for. The final concept have an ergonomically correct sitting position, is lowered and smaller than the existing tricycle. Materials for prototyping were gathered at a market and a cycle repair shop in Kanpur. The prototype was compared to the existing tricycle, which is the type of wheelchair that came closest to the construction of the prototype. This comparison showed that the prototype is smaller, has a lowered undercarriage and a completely new technique of steering. Next step in the development could be to expand the field study, construct another prototype and conduct further user testing.
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Croft, David D. "An examination of the cognitive structural complexity of non-disabled peoples implicit knowledge of physically disabled people : implications for attitudes towards physically disabled people /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09P/09pc941.pdf.
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Latham, Yvonne Louise. "Making connections : organisation, technologies and disabled people." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578254.
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There are many 'voluntary sector' led attempts which use personal computers to facilitate improved participation of disabled people in social and economic life ('digital inclusion'). However, the organisation and longer-term outcomes of such projects have tended to remain under-researched. The thesis adopts a long-term focus on the challenges and workarounds that characterise successful or failed attempts by disabled people (typically using off-the- shelf applications for affordability and support reasons) to ensure meaningful connections. Much of the research on 'digital inclusion' projects of this kind tends to be conducted through questionnaires, and often suffers from a 'box-ticking' approach to issues such as 'installation' and 'ICT use' that tends to leave open questions regarding how any challenges were actually resolved (or not) in practice. Furthermore, an often extensive reliance on on- line interviews and questionnaires inevitably leaves non-users unaccounted for. Similarly, research often tends to adopt short-term approaches which overemphasise lCTs' "potential to improve disabled people's lot" (Sheldon, 2004) and thus fail to give a clear picture of what form (the hoped for) 'digital inclusion' did take in practice. Such research therefore tends to focus on end states (before/after) at the expense of questions of processes and practices. This, the thesis argues, is a critical omission since voluntary organisations which are the most common channel for digital inclusion schemes (Social Exclusion Unit, 2005) are unlikely to possess optimal equipment or support. What is often missing in this literature therefore, are accounts of how disabled people and their helpers "muddle through" the technical, support and other challenges they face. Drawing on qualitative research undertaken with a UK non-profit organisation, the thesis focuses on the ways in which disabled people are able (or not) to make use of information technology in their homes, and the challenges, workarounds that are involved in their successful or failed attempts at becoming 'connected'. The general contribution the thesis makes is to the ongoing debate within social science concerned with the role of technologies in social life. Through a focus on disabled people it offers a novel way of entering into this debate which serves to unpack the often taken for granted nature of the role the body plays (in this case, the impaired body) in the organising of 'social' and 'material' (sociomaterial) relations.
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Kasperova, Eva. "How do disabled people form entrepreneurial identity?" Thesis, Kingston University, 2017. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/41883/.
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This study examines how disabled people become entrepreneurs, using the concept of ‘entrepreneurial identity’ as a theoretical lens for explaining the effects of disability on venture creation. The original theoretical contribution is a novel conceptualisation of entrepreneurial identity, one that applies to all entrepreneurs whilst including the experiences of disabled people and people with long-term impairments and health conditions. Drawing on a critical realist philosophy, and a stratified, emergent ontology, entrepreneurial identity is defined as a personal power to create a new venture that succeeds in the marketplace. Entrepreneurial identity, as a causal power, is a tendency that may be possessed unexercised, exercised unrealised and realised unperceived. Although most people have the potential to become an entrepreneur, not everyone can, or is motivated to, exercise that power because of other countervailing powers – personal, material and social. Theorising identity as a causal power can account for both stability and change in identity formation, in contrast to studies that define entrepreneurial identity in terms of fixed characteristics determining behaviour, or as a dynamic process encompassing narrative performances. The empirical material comprises entrepreneur and stakeholder interview data, online visual data and shadowing field notes. The analysis reveals that the emergence of entrepreneurial identity presupposes three lower-level personal powers that must be exercised simultaneously: (1) the power to conceive of a new venture idea; (2) the power to commit to venture creation; and (3) the power to acquire new venture legitimacy. Depending on circumstances, disability can both enable and constrain individual capacity to realise the three powers, with implications for venture creation. The findings highlight the role of human relations with nature and the material culture of artefacts as well as society in the emergence of entrepreneurial identity. This novel theoretical framework is more inclusive in terms of the multiplicity of mechanisms at different identity strata and levels of reality that it can examine whilst accommodating the alternative approaches.
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Meredith, Sandra K. "Accessing Disabled Student Services| Students' perspectives." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527731.
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The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions of university students with disabilities and the factors that contribute to or deter them from accessing Disabled Student Services. The sample was based on availability and convenience and consisted of 36 students. A self-administered survey was used.
The results indicated that students tended to seek services to access accommodations and to learn more about services that can help them succeed. They tended to delay seeking services in order to have a fresh start in college and due to their fear of stigma. Individuals with mental health disabilities were less likely than other students to report self-determination and support and more likely to experience stigma.
Social workers can play a vital role in assisting students with disabilities in identifying their specific barriers and in assisting them to access programs and services in a postsecondary education setting.
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Carew, M. "Fostering positive intergroup relations between non-disabled people and physically disabled people : contact quality and its social psychological antecedents." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2014. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/13628/.
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Although intergroup contact is a well-established area of inquiry within social psychology, the majority of research adheres to testing its traditional formulation, i.e. the extent that contact can reduce prejudice. Under this approach researchers do not investigate what happens during interactions, only if (and often, what sort of) contact has occurred. Consequently, it lacks the power to explain why interactions should be as they are between groups. Conversely, this thesis proposes that investigating contact as an outcome may provide a new and important insight into intergroup life. Specifically, this thesis investigated social psychological antecedents of contact quality among non-disabled and physically disabled people. This unique and challenging context is one that has largely been neglected by prior research. A review of the existing literature identified two key potential antecedents of contact quality, specifically the psychological concerns and embarrassment that both groups experience when interacting with out-group members. A qualitative study (Study 1) was then conducted to gain insight into the phenomenology of these constructs. Importantly, this allowed for the identification of the unique group-specific concerns that non-disabled and physically disabled people may hold. This thesis went on to test the impact of concerns and embarrassment on contact quality through a series of experiments involving both vignette-based and actual interactions (Studies 2-5). Among both groups, these studies revealed evidence of an indirect link between concerns and reduced contact quality. Furthermore, embarrassment was identified as the linking mechanism driving this important relationship. Subsequently the thesis tested a series of interventions directed at attenuating embarrassment and improving the contact quality of these encounters. Two of these studies (Study 6-7) tested the efficacy of an interpersonal feedback strategy, delivered by the physically disabled interactant across an actual (Study 6) and vignette-based (Study 7) interaction. Findings indicated that such feedback could improve contact quality perceptions among both groups, but it was unclear if it did so by reducing embarrassment. Additionally, among the physically disabled sample, the effects became non-significant when controlling for demographic factors. Finally, Studies 8a and 8b examined the potency of a societal-level intervention, the 2012 Paralympic Games. Over the period of the event, concerns and embarrassment were found to decrease in both groups but there was no reported change in contact quality. Additionally, differences once again disappeared when controlling for demographic factors. Implications of these findings, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
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Jayasooria, Denison. "Citizenship, social work and disabled people in Malaysia." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308929.
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Shires, Gina. "Freedom of action : significant factors for disabled people." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27130.
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The overall purpose of the study was the identification of factors which influence the freedom of physically disabled people, within South African society, to make choices that will enable them to conduct their daily lives independently. Qualitative research methods (observation and semi-structured interviews) were utilised to explore the problem from the disabled person's perspective. In total there were ten participants, sampling being purposive and opportunistic. The study was essentially narrative, with the results analysed and grouped thematically. Factors influencing independence related to the individual's functioning, as well as the social environment and the study's setting in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. The relative strength of each factor varied at any one time for a given subject, and between the respondents. Overall there was strong agreement amongst participants and with the literature. Recommendations made related to future research, student training and occupational therapy practise.
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Ottosson, Jessica, and Marie Söderström. "Morot eller piska? : Distriktssköterskans hälsofrämjande arbete på LSS-bostäder - En kvalitativ intervjustudie." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-42313.
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Personer med funktionsnedsättning är en utsatt grupp som lider av sämre hälsa än övriga befolkningen, vilket ser lika ut i hela världen. I Sverige är ohälsa hos personer med funktionsnedsättning vanligt förekommande och relaterad till ohälsosamma levnadsvanor, vilka till stor del skulle kunna förebyggas. Distriktssköterskan har ett ansvar att arbeta hälsofrämjande och är den profession som vanligen ansvarar för hälso- och sjukvården hos personer med funktionsnedsättning som bor på en LSS-bostad. Syftet med studien var att beskriva distriktssköterskans upplevelse av hälsofrämjande arbete hos personer som bor på LSS-bostäder. En kvalitativ studiedesign användes och data insamlades vid tio semistrukturerade intervjuer, vilka analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys utifrån en induktiv ansats. Resultatet visar på att distriktssköterskor upplevde det hälsofrämjande arbetet som komplext med flera faktorer som påverkar. Många distriktssköterskor upplevde en frustration utifrån brist på resurser i form av tid och organisatoriskt stöd. Personalen som arbetar på LSS-bostäder var en viktig komponent i det hälsofrämjande arbetet och utgjorde en positiv faktor när kompetens och engagemang fanns, likväl som ett hinder när dessa delar saknades. Resultatet visade att bristande kommunikativa förmåga och insikt i hälsosamma levnadsvanor hos personer med funktionsnedsättning kunde utgöra ett hinder i det hälsofrämjande arbetet. Slutligen visar resultatet på brister i distriktssköterskans hälsofrämjande arbete hos personer som bor på LSS-bostäder. Det behövs fortsatt forskning i hur distriktssköterskan bör arbeta hälsofrämjande och hur distriktssköterskans förutsättningar för det arbetet kan förbättras.People with disabilities are an exposed group who are less healthy and more likely to suffer from illness than the rest of the population. In Sweden, there is a clear connection between people with disabilities and an unhealthy lifestyle. This health issue can be prevented though. Community health nurses are responsible to promote health for people with disabilities living in residence with special services in group housing. The intention with this study is to learn about the experiences community health nurses have while promoting health in group housing. 10 semi-structured interviews have been conducted with community health nurses working with disabled persons living in group housing. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the interviews. The result showed that all nurses experienced their health promoting work as complexed and challenging. They were frustrated with the inadequacy of support from their employer and lack of time to set aside for these tasks. The nurses described the staff working in group housing as essential for health promoting. The staff was described as a positive influence when they were engaged and competent in their field but could also work as an obstacle when they lacked those capacities. The result showed that the nurses experienced the lack of communication abilities and understanding in a healthy lifestyle of the persons with disabilities as the biggest obstacle in their work. Lastly, the results show deficiency in the health promoting work at the residences with special services in group housing led by the nurses. Further research is needed, both regarding the way health promoting work can be conducted by the community health nurse and how the work conditions best could be adapted.
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Bezzina, Lara. "Disabled voices in development? : the implications of listening to disabled people in Burkina Faso." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12100/.
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Development discourse and practice have generally ignored, even silenced, people with disabilities. In response, this thesis draws on the case of Burkina Faso to bring geographies of development and disability into dialogue with postcolonial theory, which seeks to recuperate the voices of the marginalised and oppressed. It adopts a mixed ethnographic methods approach, including participatory techniques and interviews, in order to understand the lived experiences of disabled people in Burkina Faso. The thesis first examines the general context of Burkina Faso and the different aspects of Burkinabe life and society in which disabled people’s lives unfold. These aspects are interlinked with the perceptions of disability in Burkina Faso, both in how society perceives disability and in how disabled people view themselves. These perceptions, which are explored subsequently, affect the lived experiences of disabled people, which are often not taken into account by development practitioners who intervene in disabled people’s lives using western models and ideologies. Furthermore, development interventions influence the creation and functioning of grassroots disabled people’s organisations, and here the thesis looks at the challenges these organisations face with regard to their heavy dependence on external partners as well as the lack of ‘organisational spirit’. Finally, the thesis examines disabled people’s perceptions of development and the emphasis on economic independence as an essential element in a disabled person’s life to challenge the predominant perception of disabled people as a burden. It highlights the significance of opening up spaces in which disabled people’s voices can be heard, using techniques such as participatory video, and the significance of having these voices heard by development practitioners. The findings indicate that there is a need to theorise disability from Global South perspectives, as well as to facilitate development through an engagement with the voices and agency of disabled people.
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Sonali, Laxmi Shah Sonali Laxmi. "Career success of disabled high-flyers." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2002. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6878.
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The aim of this qualitative study is to identify what factors a group of professional disabled people perceived had influenced their career success, and how they define career success. The study is based on subjective accounts of thirty-one disabled highflyers: men and women from different social and ethnic backgrounds, with congenital or acquired physical impairments, and hold occupational positions in Social Class I or H of the Registrar General's classification of occupations. This work looks at the extent to which the disabled high-flyers perceived career choice and progression, childhood, education, disability, and personality to be significant to their career development and success, and how they define success. Using the data collected from semi-structured interviews, this research provides an indepth insight of the journey travelled, by each of the thirty-one disabled people, from childhood to achieving career success in adulthood. The study shows that oldstyle careers, operating in stable and supportive organisations are sometimes more beneficial to disabled people than some forms of new careers known as `boundaryless' and which require more flexibility and moving from place to place. It indicates the existence of the `glass ceiling' in many sectors of the economic market, showing it to cause disabled people to redirect their original career choice. The study also shows that individuals with congenital disabilities were often likely to follow more of a boundaryless approach of career progression in order to meet their initial career aspirations. It also found that, disability was not only sometimes a causal attribute of re-directed career progression, but also, at times, a precursor of career choice and success. However being disabled was not always the cause of career change and re-direction. Several of the disabled people perceived their career to have developed much the same as that of their non-disabled colleagues. This thesis recognises the role of education in the career and life success of the disabled high-flyers. The advantages and disadvantages of mainstream and segregated education are highlighted. Although segregated education does indeed restrict the educational and therefore, occupational choices of young disabled people, it is nonetheless considered to be essential to the social, physical and psychological development of disabled children. This work offers the idea of link schools and partial integration to facilitate disabled students to achieve life goals at the rate of their nondisabled peers. The career orientation of the female disabled high-flyers, particularly those with childhood disability, was unlikely to be influenced by their gender. It seems that disability was the master status, overriding all other attributes, including gender. However this was not a negative thing. It was found that disabled women are not only capable of achieving a status equal to non-disabled women in the home, but also have the potential to compete with non-disabled men in the workplace and succeed in gender atypical careers.
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Brown, Scott Anthony. "Student perceptions of the efficacy of learning disability support services." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467885891&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Perry, Jill, and University of Lethbridge School of Health Sciences. "Designed for life : disabled/enabled at home." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, School of Health Sciences, 2008, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/734.
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Using a phenomenological hermeneutic methodology, this thesis describes the lived experience of people with mobility impairments in the context of their home environment. Nine individuals with mobility impairments were interviewed at length regarding their experiences in their homes. From the resulting narratives, the data were arranged under three thematic statements: Doing my thing, Being myself, and Evolving with my environment. The study highlights the interdependent nature of the person-environment-occupation relationship and reveals the potential for an enabling home design to affect all areas of human occupation (self-care, productivity and leisure). The efficient performance of self-care activities in the home emerged as being somewhat predictive of the extent to which participants were involved in the areas of productivity and leisure. This thesis offers support for the social model of disability and illuminates the need for incorporating universal design in all homes.x, 98 leaves ; 29 cm. --
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Vellani, Fayyaz. "Law's contexts and scales : inclusive environments for disabled people." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427676.
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Hickey, Marianne. "Communication enhancement in an aid for severely disabled people." Thesis, Coventry University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296025.
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Boggis, Alison. "Deafening silences : researching with disabled children and young people." Thesis, University of Essex, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573734.
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This thesis is first and foremost about voices - voices that are young and voices that are disabled. Specifically it is about the ways in which voices are simultaneously facilitated and inhibited. It is not about impairment or medical issues. Based on in-depth, qualitative research with children and young people who have little or no voice and who use voice prosthetics in the form of high tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems (AACS), this thesis is built upon the moral perspective of respect for the role and status of children. It promotes their entitlement to being considered as persons of value and with rights. The study offered disabled children and young people an opportunity to participate in research and gave them a platform from which to project their voices. The data highlighted the ways in which disabled children and young people negotiated external structures of control to change their social positions. Specific issues that arose during the research process with regards to gaining access to disabled children, seeking their informed consent and the challenges that relate to interviewing inarticulate participants are outlined within the thesis 5 and considered particularly relevant to researchers who seek to include disabled children in qualitative research. Whilst perceived notions of dependency and incompetence emerged as major issues that inhibited disabled children and young people's voices, this thesis challenges the concept of the 'disabled' child by highlighting the ways in which meanings and values were contested by the young participants themselves. The findings demonstrate that it is increasingly important to recognize the diversity of voices within childhood.
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Wheeler, Peter. "Disabled people and employment : recovering histories and contemporary practices." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3937/.
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This thesis argues that the claim that disability is capable of reduction to two polar opposite models of disability cannot be sustained. Drawing on historical data, it is shown that for over the past century organised groups of disabled people were proactive in affecting social change without recourse to medical intervention, fighting for economic emancipation. Hence claims that the social model of disability represents a new understanding are incorrect. It is shown that the dominant traditional intellectual understandings of disability were not reducible to simplistic oppositional medical/social models, but rather a more complex combination which acknowledged both components in the construction of disability. To test this understanding, a comparison was made between two contemporary organisations who have the mission of engaging disabled people in work, and might be expected to operate to the oppositional social/medical models. Through an ethnographic study in an organisation run and controlled by disabled people and participatory observation in a government employment initiative for disabled people, it is shown through the organic understandings held by stakeholders in both organisations that mutually exclusive models could not be seen in everyday operations, and despite one organisation working explicitly to a social model of disability, they could not escape the reality of impairment when claiming that disability was singularly the result of disabling attitudes and social structures. Hence the social model organisation could not provide any better employment opportunities than one operating to traditional intellectual understandings. Through considering my own impairment and the traditional prescriptive methodological texts which assume a non disabled researcher, a methodological contribution is made by challenging understandings held in both positivist and interpretive approaches. It is also argued, that emancipatory disability research by disregarding any consequences of impairment, fails to make the challenges necessary to provide a more inclusive model.
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Edwards, Claire Elizabeth. "Integrating disabled people into the regeneration of British cities." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288851.
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Kent, Ruth Margaret. "Health needs of disabled people in a rural community." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363892.