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Journal of Rehabilitation 1977
Topics: Disabled Persons; Humans; Rehabilitation Centers; Sexual Behavior; United States
PubMed: 144187
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Journal of Advanced Nursing Jul 2003Korean views and attitudes towards disabled people are generally negative. Because of this, living with life-long disabilities in Korea means pain for oneself and one's...
BACKGROUND
Korean views and attitudes towards disabled people are generally negative. Because of this, living with life-long disabilities in Korea means pain for oneself and one's family. Also family members think that the disability is detrimental to their social standing and try to hide the disabled person. Koreans believe that having disabilities is the result of the geomantic system of topography, used in choosing auspicious sites for graves and houses, sins committed in a previous existence, the fault of an ancestor, or a wicked ghost.
AIM
The objective of the study was to provide an understanding of how adolescents with physical disabilities see meaning in their lives, with the ultimate aim of encouraging these adolescents to find their own values and meanings of life.
DESIGN
An inductive and descriptive study to understand the perspective of adolescents with physical disabilities.
METHODS
Eighty-eight adolescents with physical disabilities were interviewed in depth and content analysis was used for analyzing the data.
FINDINGS
Adolescents with physical disabilities in Korea experience meaning in their lives when society accepts their existential problems and allows them to live a normal life. This normality includes helping others (as a friend or as a volunteer) and creating opportunities to achieve their own goals in life. The main categories in the findings were 'accomplishment', 'social adaptation', 'improvement of the quality of life', 'good deeds', 'sincerity', 'satisfaction', 'having a relationship', 'achievement of self', 'perception of one's own usefulness', 'rehabilitation', and 'gain recognition by others'.
CONCLUSION
Adolescents with physical disabilities can understand the meaning of their lives when meaning is framed in the context of being a social issue, and when they are allowed to clarify their own values. Nursing intervention programmes need to be developed to improve the quality of physically disabled adolescents' lives.
Topics: Adolescent; Attitude to Health; Child; Disabled Persons; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Korea; Male; Psychology, Adolescent; Quality of Life; Self Concept; Social Adjustment
PubMed: 12834372
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02689_1.x -
Child: Care, Health and Development 1992Service contacts, perceived helpfulness of services and needs for help were investigated in a sample of 107 families of young children with severe physical disability....
Service contacts, perceived helpfulness of services and needs for help were investigated in a sample of 107 families of young children with severe physical disability. Many families were in contact with a multiplicity of different services and overall frequency of contact was high. Despite this, there was evidence of considerable unmet need, particularly in the provision of information to families. Families with the highest levels of unmet need were likely to have experienced high levels of strain from life events and to have children with mental retardation as well as physical disability, fathers in those families were more likely to be unemployed and mothers were more likely to use passive optimism in coping with child problems. The findings indicate the importance of services which are easily accessible to parents, the provision of information to parents about such services, the co-ordination of services through a 'link' person and the accurate and individual assessment of family needs.
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; Child; Child Health Services; Child Welfare; Child, Preschool; Disabled Persons; Family; Female; Humans; Interview, Psychological; Male; Maternal Behavior; Motor Skills; Social Support; Stress, Psychological
PubMed: 1394855
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00359.x -
Medical Law Review May 2023How can caregivers' interests be balanced with disability rights in decisions about whether to sterilise an intellectually disabled person? This question is considered...
How can caregivers' interests be balanced with disability rights in decisions about whether to sterilise an intellectually disabled person? This question is considered in the context of Singapore, a commonwealth country that lacks a test case. Singapore has a lesser-known history of eugenics, and has struck an uneasy compromise between communitarian values and obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in recent years. This article provides an overview of Singaporean law under the Voluntary Sterilisation Act 1974 and the Mental Capacity Act 2008, and compares this with the law in Canada, England and Wales, and Australia. This article also situates the CRPD in the context of Singapore's dualist view of international law and communitarian approach to disability policy. It argues that CRPD rights to bodily integrity can be presumptively upheld in best interests determinations on sterilisation, while caregivers' interests can be accommodated in a relational understanding of best interests. A decisional framework along these lines is proposed.
Topics: Humans; Human Rights; Sterilization, Reproductive; Caregivers; Disabled Persons; Persons with Mental Disabilities; United Nations
PubMed: 36166703
DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwac036 -
Journal of Aging Studies Mar 2018Initiatives that bridge the fields of ageing and disability are considered critical internationally but to be limited in practice. Taking Ireland as a case, and focusing...
Too many 'false dichotomies'? Investigating the division between ageing and disability in social care services in Ireland: A study with statutory and non-statutory organisations.
Initiatives that bridge the fields of ageing and disability are considered critical internationally but to be limited in practice. Taking Ireland as a case, and focusing on social care, this article reports on a study investigating the separate organization of older people's and disability services as perceived by those working in policy-making, service provision and advocacy. In Ireland, as in many countries, social care is administered separately for disabled people and older people. Perceptions of those working in social care are thought to play a role in successful boundary-crossing initiatives. This study suggests that while participants often perceived the administrative and funding boundary between the fields of ageing and disability as illogical, inflexible, and not delivering person-centred care or support, the divide between the two sectors is underpinned by conceptual issues, including the lack of a concept of disability with ageing. The article argues that ways are needed of articulating what it is to experience disability in older age that are shared between older people's and disability sectors. It discusses bio-psychosocial models of disability as a means of doing so, one that avoids a return to an equation between older age and impairment, disability or decline. It concludes that more interrogation is needed of the separate philosophical underpinnings of disability and older people's sectors, argues for greater linkages between the two fields and for more exploration of social constructions of the experience of disability in later life.
Topics: Aged; Aging; Disabled Persons; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Ireland; Public Policy; Social Work
PubMed: 29502788
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2017.09.005 -
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation... Aug 2019Accuracy in measuring function related to one's ability to work is central to public confidence in a work disability benefits system. In the United States, national...
Accuracy in measuring function related to one's ability to work is central to public confidence in a work disability benefits system. In the United States, national disability programs are challenged to adjudicate millions of work disability claims each year in a timely and accurate manner. The Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB) was developed to provide work disability agencies and other interested parties a comprehensive and efficient approach to profiling a person's function related to their ability to work. The WD-FAB is grounded by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health conceptual framework.
Topics: Disabled Persons; Humans; Mental Health; Motor Activity; Return to Work; United States; Work Capacity Evaluation
PubMed: 31227131
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2019.03.004 -
Journal of Advanced Nursing Feb 2014To introduce how nursing students discursively construct their dyslexic identities.
AIM
To introduce how nursing students discursively construct their dyslexic identities.
BACKGROUND
Identity mediates many important facets of a student's scholarly journey and the availability and use of discourses play a critical part in their ongoing construction.
DESIGN
A discourse-based design was used to examine the language employed by students in constructing their dyslexic identities.
METHODS
Using narrative methods, 12 student nurses with dyslexia from two higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland were interviewed during the period February-July 2012. Discourse analysis of interviews entailed a two-stage approach: leading identity analysis followed by thematic analysis.
RESULTS
Discourses used by students to construct their dyslexic identity correspond with positions on an 'Embracer, Passive Engager and Resister' continuum heuristic. The majority of students rejected any reference to using medical or disabled discourses and instead drew on contemporary language in constructing their dyslexic identity. Nine of the 12 students did not disclose their dyslexic identity in practice settings and drew on not being understood to support this position. In addition, a discourse linking 'being stupid' with dyslexia was pervasive in most student narratives and evolved from historical as well as more recent interactions in nurse education.
CONCLUSION
This study indicates variation in how students discursively construct their dyslexic identities, which, in turn, has an impact on disclosure behaviours. Policy leaders must continue to be mindful of wider sociocultural and individualized understandings of dyslexic identities to enhance inclusion prerogatives.
Topics: Attitude to Health; Disabled Persons; Dyslexia; Education, Nursing; Fear; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Ireland; Male; Self Concept; Stereotyping; Students, Nursing
PubMed: 23829518
DOI: 10.1111/jan.12199 -
Disability and Rehabilitation.... Jan 2014
Topics: Disabled Persons; Humans; Orthopedic Equipment; Patient-Centered Care; Self-Help Devices
PubMed: 24304239
DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2013.870239 -
Dementia (London, England) Mar 2014Illness such as dementia has particular linguistic and cognitive difficulties, not the least of which is its depiction in narrative, which may not be taken seriously....
Illness such as dementia has particular linguistic and cognitive difficulties, not the least of which is its depiction in narrative, which may not be taken seriously. This paper builds upon a recently published manuscript by the authors, that describes a methodological approach utilising structural and thematic forms of narrative analysis to keep the person with dementia 'centre stage' in their own life story narrative. The aim of this paper is to utilise the same methodological approach and data to explore the narrative threads of a life-long disability, as experienced by a person called Janet who lives with dementia. Janet's story locates disability not as personal impairment but within the social and cultural context of family and religious life. This contributes to a better understanding of resilience built up over time; in so doing, provides further insight into Janet's enduring sense of self as she embraced a more challenging journey along the pathway of dementia.
Topics: Dementia; Disabled Persons; Female; Humans; Narrative Therapy; Resilience, Psychological; Self Concept
PubMed: 24599810
DOI: 10.1177/1471301212455121 -
Psychiatria Danubina Dec 2023Intellectual Abilities, as defined in the twelfth edition of the classification manual of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, are a...
Intellectual Abilities, as defined in the twelfth edition of the classification manual of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, are a fundamental part of the rehabilitation process, also understood as functional rehabilitation or the rehabilitation of specific more or less complex functions, in a paradoxical game of mirrors even in the rehabilitation of intellectual functions themselves. Intellectual Disability changes the rules of the game, all the more radically the more severe it is, exacerbating the importance of multidimensional assessment of residual abilities and impaired functions on the basis of which to define realistic goals and choose the tools of rehabilitation and the ways of implementing therapeutic programs in a team effort that consists of the professionals, family and care givers, as well as the disabled person to the extent that he or she is able to actively participate in conducting his or her own rehabilitation.
Topics: Humans; Male; Female; Disabled Persons; Intellectual Disability; Cognition; Medicine
PubMed: 37994074
DOI: No ID Found