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Scott, Heather J. "The role of housing in community care for mentally disabled people". Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5732/.
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It is argued that housing is a fundamental element in successful community care programmes for people who have a long-term mental illness, but that the significance of the immediate living environment on the individual's psych- social well-being has been underestimated in the formulation and implementation of policy. Using a grounded theory approach. Part One reports an exploratory study of the catchment area of one psychiatric hospital, which included parts of three health districts and three local authority areas. The study examined in detail, with a focus on housing, the operation of services for mentally disabled people , the plans for creating locally-based facilities, and the implementation of those plans in the mid-1980's, by means of a combination of documentary evidence and key informant interviews. All three parts of the study area were found to have encountered major but differing problems. Wide variations between and within local areas in policy and resources were found, but most stiking was the emergence of two distinct key informant perspectives: those of policy makers/managers, and workers in face-to-face contact with mentally disabled people, indicative of separate discourses of rights and needs. Part Two sets up a model of three functions of housing based on psychological needs, and argues for a compensatory role for housing in community care, which is contrasted with the reality of increasing difficulty in meeting even basic survival needs. It is suggested that the emphasis on negative rights of much mental health reform was inadequate to ensure that needs were met when the welfare net began to contract, and renewed emphasis on citizenship and social rights is proposed as a means to represent more adequately the housing needs of mentally disabled people at the levels of policy and service planning.
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Sullivan, Jacqueline Patricia Clay Tubbs. "Pastoral care to younger adults in long-term care". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Hulland, Sarah A. "A retrospective review and analysis of the need for a hospital-based dental care program for the adult with disabilities". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq28770.pdf.
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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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Lech, Patricia Griffith. "The Increase in Disabled Workers and Healthcare Provider Incentives". Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2009. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/LechPG2009.pdf.
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Clear, Mike, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University e 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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Kelleher, Anne L. "Caring for disabled husbands : wives' perspectives". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29698.
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There is presently an increasing trend towards deinstitutionalization of several different populations, including physically disabled adults. Although a variety of staffed resources provide for alternative care, 'home' and 'family' remain the primary resource in the community based care system.
Given that the family of the 1980's has a decreased capacity to care due to such factors as increased mobility and loss of extended family networks we must be concerned with the continued viability of this resource. And, given that 'family’ is often a euphemism for 'nearest female relative' and that women's role in society has changed markedly in recent years the issue of women as caregivers is one of particularly urgent concern.
This study is based on extensive interviews with eight women caring for disabled husbands. The interview schedule and methodology facilitated descriptive data regarding caregiving tasks as well as a comprehensive exploration of what was problematic about the day to day reality of caregiving for these women.
The data analysis identified struggling with the 'role' of wife-caregiver, isolation and a changed marital dynamic as primary themes in the process of caregiving.
This study provides some insight into what is problematic about caregiving for these wives and some suggestions for improving social work practice and providing more effective services in relation to this population.Arts, Faculty of
Social Work, School of
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Bonnett, David Christopher Sturgess. "The design effectiveness of residential care homes for independent living of young physically disabled people". Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282640.
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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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McNeilly, Patricia. "The participation of disabled children, young people and their parents in health and social care decisions". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679479.
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There is an increasing expectation that children, young people and their parents should participate in decisions that affect them. This includes decisions about their health and social care and collective or public decisions about the way in which services are designed, delivered and evaluated. Indeed this has become a policy priority across the UK (Franklin and Sloper, 2009). The participation of disabled children and young people has been slow to develop and concerns have been expressed about progress in this area. This ESRC funded study aimed to explore the experience and outcomes of the participation of disabled children, young people and their parents in health and social care decisions. Participants in this mixed method study were 77 parents, 18 disabled children and young people and 90 professionals from the Southern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland. Findings revealed that while families are clearly participating in decisions and there are positive outcomes associated with this, it needs further development. This thesis makes a unique contribution to this field by exploring both the process and outcomes of participation and by proposing a model of family participation within the context of social justice. Implications for practice, services and policy are discussed.
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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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Sandler, Louis. "Goodness-of-fit and the viability for behavioral support plans : survey of direct care adult residential staff /". view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3024530.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-193). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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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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Cook, Craig A. "An investigation of the factors related to direct care staffs' knowledge of effective instructional strategies for people with developmental disabilities". Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002832.
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Smith, Terry L. "Staff knowledge of client rights in West Virginia institutions for the developmentally disabled". Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53585.
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Analysis of staff knowledge of client rights in West Virginia institutions for the developmentally disabled was undertaken in this study. Even with the identification of guaranteed rights for institutionalized individuals through federal and state legislation, standards, policies, and judicial decisions, whose findings have shown that violation of client rights continues to occur in most institutions. A review of the literature indicated that one possible cause for the continuation of rights violations may be the staff limited understanding of client rights. The literature also has revealed few studies have attempted an investigation in this area. This study involved 644 full-time staff who were representative of one of six different job categories. The staff were employed in one of three West Virginia institutions for the developmentally disabled. It was hypothesized that if differences in staff knowledge of client rights were identified, this information could be used to direct staff training and policy-making decisions and perhaps minimize the continuous violations of client rights.
That significant differences in knowledge of client rights did exist when different job categories of staff were compared within each institution as well as across institutions. It was found that significant relationships in knowledge of client rights exist between staff with different job longevity rates, but the correlation was too low to be considered a reliable predictor of limited value. No significant differences in staff knowledge of client rights were found between the three institutions. The implication of these research findings and the future need for research in this area are discussed.Ed. D.
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Cermak, Tracy. "Developmentally Disabled Older Adults in Georgia: Rural, Metropolitan, and Urban Long Term Housing Availability". Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/gerontology_theses/15/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed July 29, 2010) Ann Pearman, committee chair; Erin Ruel, Dennis Thompson, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-81).
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Mahon, Karen Anne. "Comparison of self-determination between verbal and non-verbal residents of intermediate care facilities". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2633.
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This study compared verbal and nonverbal residents of Intermediate Care Facilities-Developmental Disabilities-Habilitative type (IFC-DD-H) on self-determination. The residents were compared using an adapted version of the Association for Retarded Citizen's (ARC) Self-determination scale.
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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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Clarke, Richard. "An assessment of the causal attributions of care staff working with learning disabled people : the application of a formal structured model and qualitative measures". Thesis, Bangor University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318508.
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Brown, Madison McMurray. "Increasing the Quantity and Quality of Caregivers' Use of Social Reinforcement in a Large Residential Facility". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404625/.
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Behavior-specific praise has been shown to increase rate of desired behaviors for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, though it is rarely used by caregivers in residential facilities for adults with disabilities. Prompting in the form of tactile stimulation has been demonstrated to increase rate of behavior-specific praise delivered by teachers and caregivers. The purpose of the current study was to increase the quantity and quality of behavior-specific praise statements that were delivered by caregivers to individuals at a large residential facility for adults with disabilities. A tactile prompting device (Gymboss Interval Timer and Stopwatch) was provided to the caregivers and set to vibrate for one second at intervals of five minutes, for a total of six intervals. Instructions were provided to the caregivers to deliver behavior-specific praise statements, for appropriate behaviors, to their assigned clients every time a vibration occurred. Examples of behavior-specific praise statements were provided to the caregivers before each session, but no feedback was delivered during the prompting phase. Results indicated that a tactile prompting device was effective at increasing rate of behavior-specific praise statements delivered by caregivers in as little as one session.
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Claytor, Joanne Sue. "Caregivers perceptions of permanency planning for adults with developmental disabilities". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1637.
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Muzio, Steven. "Disability ministry in the small church". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0168.
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Lolwana, Lulama. "Investigating attitudes towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation competency of nurses at a hospital for intellectually disabled people in the Western Cape". University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7670.
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Magister Curationis - MCurCardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a core emergency skill in which all nurses need to be proficient to save the lives of patients. It is important for nurses working in psychiatric hospitals to administer CPR correctly should the need arise. However, they rarely perform CPR as the patients they care for are generally not physical ill, unlike patients admitted in general hospitals. Given the paucity of literature on CPR in psychiatric hospitals, this study aimed at investigating the attitudes towards CPR and the CPR competency of nurses working at a hospital for intellectually disabled people in the Western Cape, South Africa
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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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Caldeira, Vanessa Andrade. "Prática de terapia ocupacional em unidade básica de saúde na atenção às pessoas com deficiência". Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5163/tde-02022010-122242/.
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O estudo descreve os processos de trabalho de terapeutas ocupacionais (TO) em unidades básicas de saúde (UBS) na atenção às pessoas com deficiência. Tem como referencial teórico as propostas assistenciais dirigidas a essa população na atenção básica em saúde e o processo de trabalho enquanto uma forma de apreender a tecnologia (principalmente os instrumentos não materiais) utilizada pelos profissionais na prática assistencial. O universo de pesquisa foi a Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de São Paulo (SMS) por concentrar o maior número de TO em UBS. Na primeira fase, foi realizada a caracterização inicial das unidades e do processo de trabalho através de questionário enviado aos 36 TO em UBS. Foram respondidos 18 questionários. Os TO pesquisados têm, em média, oito anos de experiência em atenção básica, autonomia para atuação profissional e estão satisfeitos com os locais de trabalho. Onze TO estão em UBS tradicionais e sete em UBS com a Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF). Dois TO trabalham, predominantemente, na área de reabilitação e sete, na área de saúde mental. Seis TO trabalham nas duas áreas. O atendimento em grupo é o recurso mais utilizado pelos profissionais. A segunda fase da pesquisa foi realizada com cinco TO que trabalham com pessoas com deficiência e que se dispuseram a continuar no estudo. Utilizamos como instrumentos de coleta de dados a observação e entrevista. Três TO estão em UBS tradicionais, e dois em UBS com ESF e com propostas específicas de reabilitação. Todos os TO facilitam o primeiro contato de pacientes com seus serviços, mas o acesso de pessoas com deficiência graves foi maior nas UBS com ESF. Dois TO, os que trabalham em UBS com ESF, têm como princípio atender ao longo do tempo as pessoas com deficiência. Dentre os TO que estão em UBS tradicionais, um acredita que essa não é uma função da UBS, e outros dois priorizam atender apenas alguns casos ao longo do tempo, dada à indisponibilidade de vagas. A integralidade é promovida por todos os TO pela diversidade de objetos de trabalho, entre eles a aprendizagem, as relações interpessoais familiares, a escola, as funções corporais e a participação social. Os TO buscam coordenar o cuidado com outros serviços, porém, este é limitado pela falta de um fluxo estabelecido. Todos os TO apresentaram alguns ou vários aspectos de um trabalho orientado para comunidade: a realização de atividades em instituições do território, a participação no conselho gestor da UBS e a intervenção em questões como a falta de vagas nas creches. O planejamento do trabalho é precário, centralizado na perspectiva dos profissionais e não do serviço, mas observam-se iniciativas das TO em UBS com ESF e com uma proposta específica de reabilitação. Os trabalhos dos TO em UBS dialogam com os atributos da atenção primária em saúde, porém, a diversidade da estrutura organizacional das UBS e a falta de uma proposta de reabilitação da SMS nesse nível assistencial, limitam o acesso e a atenção integral à parte significativa da população com deficiência.This study describes the work processes of occupational therapists (OT) in primary health care units (PHCU) in attention of disabled person. It has as theoretical referential the care proposals directed to this population in primary health care and the work process as a way to learn the technology (mainly non-material instruments) used by professionals in care practice. The research universe was the city of São Paulo Health Department due to group together most of OT in PHCU. In the first phase, it was performed initial characterization of the units and work processes through a questionnaire sent to the 36 OT in PHCU. Eighteen questionnaires were answered. OT related an average of 8 years experience in primary care, independence for professional performance and are satisfied with the place of work. Eleven OT are in traditional PHCU and seven in PHCU with Family Health Strategy (FHS). Two OT work, mainly, in the rehabilitation area and seven in mental health area. Six OT work in both areas. The group attendance is the most used resource by professionals. The second phase of the research was performed with five OT that work with disabled person and that agreed to continue in the study. It was used as data collection instrument the observation and interview. Three OT are in traditional PHCU and two in PHCU with FHS and with specific rehabilitations proposals. Every OT facilitate first contact of patients with respective services, but the access of severed disabled person was higher in PHCU with FHS. Two OT, among the ones that work in PHCU with FHS, have as principle to attend through time disabled person. Among OT that work in traditional PHCU, one of them believes that this is not a function of the PHCU, and two other OT give priority in attendance of some cases through time, due to vacancies inexistence. Integrality is promoted by every OT by diversity of working objects, among them the apprenticeship, interpersonal familiar relationships, the school, the body functions and the social participation. OT are asked by disabled patients to coordinate care with other services. This care, nevertheless, is limited by the absence of an established workflow. Every OT related some or several aspects of a work focused on the community: the development of activities in territorial institutions, the participation in the director council of the PHCU, the intervention in matters as the absence of vacancies in child daycare facilities. The work planning is precarious, focused in the professionals perspectives and not in the service perspectives, but it was observed initiative of the OT in the PHCU with FHS and a specific rehabilitation proposal. The works of the OT in the PHCU dialogue with health primary care attributes. The diversity of PHCU organizational structure and the lack of a specific rehabilitation proposal at this assistance level, however, limit the access and whole attention to significant part of the disabled population.
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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, e 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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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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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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Perry, Jill, e 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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Keenan, Michaela. "Housing, citizenship, and community care". Thesis, University of Ulster, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.232849.
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Holohlavská, Lenka. "Domov s hospicovou péčí". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227237.
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The main goal of this diploma project is detailed design documentation of the House with hospic care, Litomyšl. The building consists of two upper ground floor levels. First ground floor is partially recessed into the terrain. The layout responds to the main purpose of the building - healthcare and social centre. Hospic is located on the edge of the city, it has the L-shaped form. The area with rooms for patients is distributed along the southern facade. The objective of connecting the interior and garden in the courtyard has been considered while forming the exterior finishing surfaces. The capacity of the hospice centre is 15 beds. The building structure is made of masonry walls with reinforced concrete slabs and combination of single sloped roof with flat roof.
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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.
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Roulstone, Alan. "New technology, disabled people and employment : a barriers approach". Thesis, Open University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318101.
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