Independent Living Institute

by Shoji and Yukiko Nakanishi, DPI-Japan
April 1998

The Japanese Government has been trying to promote decentralization for the last 6 - 7 years. The bad economic situation has strengthened this trend, with expectations that local budgets to be allocated to support it. In the field of social welfare, the plan is to move the responsibility to provide many services from the national level to the prefectural level, and from the prefectural level to the municipal level. Disabled persons are afraid that some services will be cut due to scarce local resources.

Effects on the lives of people with disabilities:

by Yukiko Nakanishi
President, Asia Disability Institute, Chairperson, DPI-Japan International Committee

A popular Japanese expression says that "A women has no house to rest in anytime", meaning that a woman should obey her father as a child, her husband as a wife, and her children as an elderly person. In Japan, as elsewhere in Asia, women continue to be treated as substantially inferior to men.

The problems of women with disabilities are especially more intensive than those of women without disabilities. The issues and problems facing women with disabilities are numerous as all of you are already aware. Poverty and injustice are cores of vulnerability and deprivation of women with disabilities.

Ms. Nadash, a graduate student at Columbia University, is former Director, National Institute on Consumer-Directed Long-Term Services, The National Council on Aging.

The following is an article from American Rehabilitation Volume 24, Number 3 Summer Autumn 1998 Personal Assistance Services Part 1 of 2.
American Rehabilitation is the official publication of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 330 C Street S.W. Washington D.C. 20202-2531

"Legislation for Human Rights"

Stockholm, Sweden, 24 August 1998

by Dr. Federico Montero

Background

Seminar on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
from a North and South Perspective
Stockholm, Sweden 23 August, 1998

Dr. Federico Montero, Chairman of the Costa Rican Disability Association

Gesetz über Unterstützung und Dienstleistungen für gewisse
Funktionsbehinderte und das Gesetz über Fürsorgeleistungen

Ministerium für Gesundheit und Soziales
Internationales Sekretariat

Postanschrift:
S-103 33 Stockholm
Schweden

September 1993

Inhalt

Das Gesetz über Unterstützung und Dienstleistungen für gewisse Funktionsbehinderte (SFS 1993: 387)

Das Gesetz über Fürsorgeleistungen (SFS 1993: 389)

by M. Miles & Farhad Hossain, 1999

Other documents by M. Miles.

This chapter was first published in: F. Armstrong & L. Barton (eds) Disability, Human Rights and Education: cross-cultural perspectives, pp. 67-86. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, isbn 0-335-20457-0, 1999. It is reprinted here by permission of the Open University Press, with slight revision.

Synopsis

Presentation at the ENIL Seminar in Southampton March 9, 2003

by Ann Macfarlane MBE

Older People & Legislation on Assessment & Direct Payments, Summary of the legal provisions,
by Ann Macfarlane MBE, March 2003

“Sometimes, I have to skip having a bath in order to chase my dreams.”

Introduction

In English

Abstrakt

Mattson Prince J, Manley MS, Whiteneck GG.
Self-managed versus agency-provided assistance care for individuals with high level tetraplegia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1995; 76:919-23.

Mål

Att, inom en begränsad befolkningsgrupp som består av människor med omfattande funktionsnedsättningar fastställa huruvida å ena sidan användandet av förmedlad vårdpersonal och å andra sidan personligt anställda, tränade, och betalda assistenter korrelerar med upplevelsen av förbättrad livskvalité och hälsotillstånd samt lägre kostnader.

Utformning och omgivning

Keynote at the Expert Seminar
organized by the Hampshire Center for Independent Living
in Southampton, May 30 -31 1998

by Philip Mason

I am privileged and overawed to be the first speaker in this conference. A conference which is looking at the future in respect of those well known phrases 'Independent Living' and 'Direct Payments'. It is a privilege and also a responsibility because I need to strike the right note. I need to encourage but also to challenge.

So where do we start? Do we talk about the past; look at the present, and then think about the future?

We ought to do a little bit of all three and it is my job to start the ball rolling.