Independent Living with Personal Assistance: article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesAccessed
Personal assistance (PA) is a model of support where disabled people take control of recruiting, training and managing the people that help them. Personal assistance differs from other forms of social care, such as domiciliary care, because the disabled person is in control of how they are sup...
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award CMMI 1944655, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) DRRP 90DPGE0019, Switzer Research Distinguished Fellow (SFGE22000372), NSF Future of Work 2231419 and ...
Seguin also strongly supported 12-year-old Tracy Latimer’s (who had a disability) father and murderer, whom she claimed received a “quite unconscionable” prison term because he had “lived under a sentence” by her existence (Farnsworth,1994; Peters,2021). Together, these comments raise the...
Are people living in certain regions at greater risk of contracting communicable diseases? ▪ Are mortality rates by disease in different parts of the country impacted by proximity to environmental hazards? ▪ Will municipal street planning objectives align with regional growth patterns?
This study aimed to explore the need for assistance from voluntary services among home-based older adults in Chinese cities and to identify the influencing factors. Unlike previous studies [32, 33], we obtained data on the care needs of older adults living at home from the perspective of publi...
Within Tanzania and Rwanda, the adjusted odds ratio of mortality for adults living in districts where PEPFAR operated more intensively was 0.83 (95% CI, 0.72-0.97; P = .02) and 0.75 (95% CI, 0.56-0.99; P = .04), respectively, compared with districts where it operated less intensively....
This promising practice brief outlines the unique characteristics of two BPA&O projects operated by IL Centers in two New England states: The Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL), and New Hampshire's Granite State Independent Living (GSIL). 展开 ...
This study views sustainability after the exit of development assistance for health (DAH) as a shared responsibility between donors and recipients and sees transitioning DAH-supported interventions into domestic health policy as a pathway to this sustain
This study views sustainability after the exit of development assistance for health (DAH) as a shared responsibility between donors and recipients and sees transitioning DAH-supported interventions into domestic health policy as a pathway to this sustain