Community living
- 02 Nov 2010
Reviews of two post-World War Two movies on rehabilitation and community reintegration after acquired disabilities: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Men (1950). Read more »
With the support of the Todd Foundation, Diversityworks Trust has begun a six month project that aims to design a flexible, multi-faceted and sustainable peer-based coaching model to support disabled people, especially young people and whanau/families, to better manage their disability support needs. The project seeks to design a model that gives information, educates and demonstrates techniques for the management of disability support workers, providers and services. Read more »
William Levack has been doodling again. Doesn't he have anything better to do with his time? This week: Wheelchairs of the Future. Read more »
- 14 Apr 2009
Since I came out as a gay man at 19 years old, I've been a user of home-based support, needs assessments, wheelchair assessments, physiotherapists as well as other health professionals and services, even rehabilitation at times. Every service provider, in my experience, has assumed I am heterosexual. Unless I actually say, ‘I'm a gay man', people assume I'm straight. That assumption operates at all levels of the organisation - from management, to administration, to individual staff. Read more »
Will Taylor
