Download or read book Evaluating Quality in Services for Disabled and Older People written by Doria Pilling and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ` Evaluation of quality in the social and health services is of increasing importance. This book: * aims to raise awareness of different types of evaluation methods in use - their strengths, limitations and most appropriate uses * discusses the problems associated in determining what quality is, and who should set the standards * presents findings from the PASS and PASSING methods of assessment * compares PASS with other evaluation methods * includes service users' perspectives on service quality. The wide ranging experience of the contributors to this volume will ensure that this book will be at the forefront of the growing field of interest about quality evaluation.
Download or read book A Quarter century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization written by Robert John Flynn and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, supported employment, and community participation were able to take firm root. This book is unique in tracing the evolution and impact of Normalization and SRV over the last quarter-century, with many of the chapter authors personally involved in a still-evolving international movement. Published in English.
Download or read book Evaluating Quality Services for People with Disabilities written by Kim Malara and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning Disability written by David Race and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society and its human services to people with learning difficulties. This unusual book, based on one of those rare courses, includes contributions from academic specialists, students and people with learning difficulties, all of whom have participated in the course. Its 'social approach' challenges the very idea of what should be taught about the subject of learning disability and who should teach it. Learning Disability - A Social Approach looks at how people's lives are affected by human services. It covers specific policy and service issues, different aspects of working with people and key debates. The unique insights gained from the combination of academic knowledge and real life experience make it a topical and thought-provoking text for anyone involved with learning disability - student, teacher, professional or policy maker.
Download or read book Disability Politics and Community Care written by Mark Priestley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priestley encourages health and welfare professionals and policy makers to start working much more closely with disabled people themselves. He argues that this will break barriers between user and provider and result in the reality of integrated living.
Download or read book Helping Employers Comply with the ADA written by Roy G. Moy and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reflects the commitment of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to ensure that Americans with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity. This report focuses specifically on the efforts of the EEOC to enforce title I of the ADA, which prohibits discrimination based on disability in employment. It evaluates & analyzes EEOC's regulations & policies clarifying the language of the statute, processing of charges of discrimination based on disability; litigation activities under title I of the ADA; & outreach, education, & technical assistance efforts relating to the act. Offers findings & recommendations.
Download or read book Systemic Intervention written by Gerald Midgley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st century. It offers a new systems philosophy and methodology, focusing upon the fundamental importance of exploring value and boundary judgements as part of the intervention process. It includes four detailed examples of the practice of systemic intervention.
Download or read book Disabled Rights written by Jacqueline Vaughn and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book 7 Quality Improvement Measurement of Outcomes for People with Disabilities written by U. S. Department Human Services and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review is part of a series of reports, Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science, commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The series provides a critical analysis of existing literature on quality improvement strategies and issues for topics identified by the 2003 Institute of Medicine report Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality.1 As part of its charge to continuously assess progress toward quality and to update the list of priority areas, AHRQ identified people with disabilities as a priority population. Health care for people with disabilities can present special challenges. For example, medical problems can be exacerbated or complicated by the presence of other medical, psychological, economic, and social problems. Likewise, the management of medical problems can be complicated by disability. Thus, optimal care requires coordination of services from various sectors to maximize the function and quality of life of a person with a disability. Since the care outcomes of function, quality of life, and community integration are interdependent, service coordination may need to span the spectrums of both care and support services (e.g., medical care and schools or social agencies). Coordination of care, with attention to the intersection of medical and social services, is congruent with recent policy attention on integrated care and medical homes. This review examines how health care outcomes have been assessed for people with disabilities. Our report seeks to improve shared understanding among a broad audience of researchers, clinicians, and policymakers with varied exposure to disability outcomes or quality improvement research. We begin by discussing outcome measurement issues and exploring conceptual frameworks for thinking about measuring outcomes for research and quality improvement efforts. We examine the diverse perspectives that researchers grounded in different fields bring to bear on what and how to measure. As with all frameworks that deal with complex concepts, the categories, paradigms, or classes we present are at best "ideal types" rather than simple designations with clean boundaries. Our Key Questions (KQs) focus on the quality assessment component of quality improvement. Using the levels-of-analysis framework, we examined outcome measures for medical care and care coordination for people with disabilities, with an emphasis on outcome measures at the level of the individual rather than the population. Key questions include: KQ1. How are outcomes assessed for people with disabilities living in the community in terms of basic medical service needs? KQ1a. What general population outcomes have been validated on and/or adjusted to accommodate disabled populations? KQ1b. What types of modifiers or case-mix adjusters have been used with the general population outcomes to recognize the special circumstances of people with disabilities? KQ1c. What are key parameters for measuring processes related to basic service care access for people with disabilities? KQ2. What measures have been used to assess effectiveness of care for people with disabilities living in the community in the context of coordination among health providers? KQ3. What measures have been used to assess effectiveness of care for people with disabilities living in the community in the context of coordination between community organizations and health providers?
Download or read book Community Care Social Policy Ideology written by Harry Cowen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the recent shifts of political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Unlike the majority of texts in the field of community care, it makes explicit the historical, philosophical, social and political inter-connections, and therefore provides an in-depth understanding of changing policy issues for students, practicioners and managers in health and social care.
Download or read book Handbook on Quality of Life for Human Service Practitioners written by Robert L. Schalock and published by Amer Assoc on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and current volume on the subject, the Handbook contains a unique and practical model of quality of life that human service professionals can use to develop services and evaluate outcomes of programs. Two international experts simplify quality of life into 8 factors that can be applied to programs in education; physical health; mental and behavioral health; mental retardation and intellectual disabilities; aging; and family services. The Handbook is based on a review of international literature from 1985-2000 and contains over 50 pages of references.
Download or read book Disability Studies Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality of Life for People with Disabilities written by Roy I. Brown and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in quality of life has increased considerably over recent years and is now making considerable impact amongst all practitioners concerned with people with disabilities. This book looks critically at the concepts, assessment and practice as they relate to quality of life issues in many fields of disability. The issues for professional training and practice are evaluated and the benefits of involvement in creative activities are examined. Vocational, social and leisure implications for quality of life considerations are also explored in a number of chapters. Case studies and examples are used throughout the book to make this edition accessible and of real practical use to all those working with people with disabilities.
Download or read book Helping Employers Comply with the ADA written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursing Times Nursing Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Individual Quality of Life written by Charles Richard Boddington Joyce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rubric "Quality of Life" first came to the explicit attention of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement about its definition, or the manner in which it should be evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life, this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies, especially in health policy & health economics. The importance of individual quality of life has been neglected, in part because of a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a meaningful method of measuring individual variables. It is a fundamental belief of the editors of this book that the primary focus of quality of life is & must continue to be the individual, who alone can define it & assess its changing personal significances. The individual perspective is of vital importance not only to patients but to their doctors too, & is more & more frequently proposed as the most meaningful measure of outcome in clinical research, especially in non-remitting or chronic conditions. Workers who wish to consider wider aspects of influences on the illnesses suffered by individuals & the health care that they receive will find much to stimulate them in the methods of documentation proposed in this book. Those mainly concerned with population samples rather than individuals may also find the sensitive methods of investigation proposed here not only to be applicable to their own areas of interest, but also rewarding in perhaps unexpected ways.
Download or read book Measuring the Quality of Care for Older People written by Jonathan Potter and published by Royal College of Physicians. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the agenda for quality measurement looking at three quality of care case studies: stroke, fractured femur and incontinence.
