Uganda is internationally recognised for its extensive legal and constitutional provisions for ensuring the rights of the disabled, in addition to the presence of a number of impairment-specific disabled persons' organisations (DPOs), which provide informal advocacy and support structures. Using...

Lange war Gesundheit in der Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit ein zentraler Gegenstand und die Gesundheitsfürsorge der größte Arbeitsbereich. Auch heute noch sind 20-25 Prozent der Fachkräfte entweder im Sozialwesen mit gesundheitsbezogenen Aufgaben betraut oder im Gesundheitswesen tätig. Ein...

Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and social conditions. While welfare state reform clearly raises important questions about...

Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to examine the financing of long-term...

Das Buch stellt das Leistungssystem und seine Innovation unter folgenden Aspekten vor: gesetzliche Grundlagen der Eingliederungshilfe; Steuerung im Leistungssystem; der Paradigmenwechsel in der Behindertenhilfe; gesetzliche Grundlagen und Zielsetzung des Persönlichen Budgets. Die...

The Productivity Commission inquiry report — Disability Care and Support — was released on 10 August 2011. Current disability support arrangements are inequitable, underfunded, fragmented, and inefficient and give people with a disability little choice. They provide no certainty that people...