Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Background to community neurological rehabilitation
- 2 Neurological rehabilitation – basic principles and models of delivery
- 3 Models of disability
- 4 Concepts of community
- 5 The views of disabled people
- 6 Outcome measures and research in the community
- 7 Evidence base for community neurological rehabilitation
- 8 Lessons from the south
- 9 Other aspects of community neurological rehabilitation
- 10 Community rehabilitation in childhood: concepts to inform practice
- 11 Neuropsychological rehabilitation in the community
- 12 The way forward
- Index
12 - The way forward
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Background to community neurological rehabilitation
- 2 Neurological rehabilitation – basic principles and models of delivery
- 3 Models of disability
- 4 Concepts of community
- 5 The views of disabled people
- 6 Outcome measures and research in the community
- 7 Evidence base for community neurological rehabilitation
- 8 Lessons from the south
- 9 Other aspects of community neurological rehabilitation
- 10 Community rehabilitation in childhood: concepts to inform practice
- 11 Neuropsychological rehabilitation in the community
- 12 The way forward
- Index
Summary
The aim of this chapter is to pull together the various strands of the book and point to a way forward for future service development and research.
The aim of this book has been to make the case for increasing resources, services and facilities to be placed in a community setting for the benefit of disabled people. We hope that the theoretical case has been made throughout the chapters in this book. However, we also hope that a partial academic case has been made by a comprehensive review of the community neurological rehabilitation research literature. This review has made it clear to us, and probably to the reader, that much more work needs to be done in this field. There is a paucity of adequate studies of the different models of service delivery. Many theoretical models have never been subject to any rigorous evaluation. This is not to suggest that there is a single model of community rehabilitation as this is certainly not the case. Each individual community may have a number of appropriate models that could be developed depending on their own resources, existing hospital facilities, existing community networks as well as their own sense of local community and local culture.
Such literature that has been reviewed has largely had a health focus. There is even less evaluation of broader-based social models of independent living.
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- Community Rehabilitation in Neurology , pp. 237 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003