Title: Background to community neurological rehabilitation
Abstract: Why did we want to write this book? There are now many textbooks on rehabilitation, including an increasing number specifically about neurological rehabilitation. However, most of these texts are written from the standpoint of a traditional hospital-based medical speciality. Many, understandably, deal with diseases and symptom management with very little attention paid to the broader concepts of disability and community participation. Many disabled people either never enter hospital or spend only a small proportion of their lives within a hospital rehabilitation unit. Thus, it is ironic that modern rehabilitation practice, at least in the Western world, has a hospital focus. There is a clear need for coordinated rehabilitation to be provided in the home, or at least in the local community. This is a significant gap in health-service provision.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-09-04
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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