Discapacidad
La Sociedad Española de Enfermería Geriátrica y Gerontológica celebra una nueva edición de su congreso, la XXVII, con el lema “Esenciales en el cambio”. Será una edición mixta, presencial y virtual. En este congreso tendrá estas áreas temáticas: Nuevos escenarios para cuidar Atención a la cronicidad Ciudades que cuidan a sus mayores Regulación y aplicabilidad de la […]
…OBJECTIVE:This research was conducted to determine the prevalence of disabilities among abused and nonabused runaways within a hospital population (Study 1) and community school population (Study 2) and to identify any associations between disability, maltreatment, family stress factors, academic achievement, school attendance, domestic violence and runaway status. METHOD:Descriptive information was collected for maltreated and nonmaltreated […]
…Objective: Circumstances of maltreatment and the presence of disabilities. Method: An electronic merger of the records of all pediatric patients. Results: Detailed record analysis of circumstances of maltreatment and the presence of disabilities. Conclusions: Differences between the Hospital and Residential samples, maltreatment and perpetrator characteristics, disability/maltreatment relationships, and their implications for primary health care are […]
…La reina ha presidido hoy la reunión del Consejo del Real Patronato sobre Discapacidad, en la que el Gobierno ha subrayado que la estrategia de acción para el empleo de las personas con discapacidad está dando sus frutos” ya que en los primeros cuatro meses del año se han realizado más de 20.000 contratos. Así […]
…This study sought to determine whether a structured diagnostic interview using a direct questioning strategy administered at admission to a residential addictions treatment program could identify the nature and extent of victimization and relationships of victimization to co-occurring mental health conditions relatively early in the treatment process. Interview data from 198 consecutive admissions of female […]
…The article reports that charities like South Gloucester Council and Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation have published detailed action plan to strengthen its adult safeguarding service following publication of the Winterbourne case review.
…The article discusses a report by Department of Health for England which states that by April 2014 people with learning disabilities should be sent in community care instead of inpatient hospital care. Resumen realizado por el/los autor/es
…An essay is presented on the Pennhurst Asylum, an haunted house set up by a businessman named Richard Chakejian. The house had one room made to look like Pennhurst dormitory having motionless bodies seen in “Suffer the Little Children,” where patients muscles had atrophied from being left too long in cage-like beds. The author also […]
…The article reports on the $9.7 million lawsuit filed by 10 disabled people against New York City for its role in overseeing the foster care system that allowed them to be adopted and abused by Judith Leekin. It says that the city admitted no misconduct as described in the documents filed in the U.S. District […]
…Despite policies of deinstitutionalisation, many people with intellectual disabilities in developed western countries continue to live in mainstream institutional settings, such as correctional facilities, rather than in the community with support from disability services. This paper reports on the life stories of 10 people with intellectual disabilities, who had been imprisoned in adult correctional facilities […]
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