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Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Keeble, Ursula
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Under the terms of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, social services departments are required to help with the provision of aids to daily living for disabled persons discharged from hospital, and with adaptations to their homes. The study aims to establish the extent to which social services ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: Judy Heumann is currently with the World Institute on Disability, a US policy organisation which works on both national and international issues. During November 1983, she was in England to meet disabled people in Hampshire, Manchester, Nottingham and London, where Centres for Independent Living are being developed. This is a ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This study day, organised by the King's Fund, took as its starting point chapter 10 of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (the Warnock Report). Main problems were that too few further and higher educational opportunities exist for school leavers ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1980
Abstract:: This report describes aspects of the work of the Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes and looks particularly at the roles of the European Economic Community, the Department of the Environment and the Crossroads Housing and Supporting Care Project. The D.O.E. assisted in the development of guidelines for local authority architects on ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Hardy, Shirley J.
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: The conference addressed the problems of identifying the client group usually described as "younger physically disabled" and of providing alternative and appropriate forms of accommodation and care services for them. Eight presentations of different approaches to these problems were given during the proceedings.

Créateur:: Institute for Consumer Ergonomics (Loughborough University of Technology), Feeney, R. J., Cooper, S., and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: This conference arose from investigatory work carried out by the Institute for Consumer Ergonomics on the system of developing and manufacturing aids and equipment for handicapped people in this country. The conference centred on the provision of adequate, suitable and effective aids to reduce the effects of various forms of ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Dopson, Laurence
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: The study days were held in an effort to share common knowledge and experience. Different ways of providing information were considered, such as the role of the provincial newspaper DIAL - Disablement and Advice Line; the provision of information about the DHSS benefits system by Disability Alliance. Practical problems facing ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1979
Abstract:: Since 1975, a series of study days have been held at the King's Fund Centre to explore the problems of life in residential units for young disabled people. A common theme at these meetings was the isolation felt by both residents and staff. The report covers the type of care ...

Créateur:: Social Services Council, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Hinks, M. Dorothy
Publication date:: 1976
Abstract:: This document is an attempt to sketch a general picture of services provided by voluntary organisations in the field of disability.

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Cotton Silk and Man-Made Fibres Research Association (Shirley Institute)
Publication date:: 1974
Abstract:: This publication is a catalogue compiled by the Shirley Institute, financed by a grant from King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and assisted by the King's Fund Centre and the Disabled Living Foundation. It gives details of garments which had been found suitable for various types of disability and would ...

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