Therapy and equipment needs of people with cerebral palsy and like disabilities in Australia

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Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (92KB PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgments
• Sections
  1. Introduction (270KB PDF)
     • Project objectives and partners
     • The service context: therapy and equipment
     • Project components and methods
     • Report outline
  2. Framework and foundations
     • Frameworks, concepts and definitions
     • Estimating unmet need: relating concepts to data
  3. Literature review
     • Definition and classification of cerebral palsy
     • Incidence of cerebral palsy
     • Survival rates and functional and health status
     • The nature of therapy
     • Frameworks for and approaches to therapy
     • Therapy across the lifespan
     • Effectiveness of therapy
  4. The population: people with cerebral palsy and like disabilities (309KB PDF)
     • Population estimates of cerebral palsy and CP-like disabilities
     • Scoping of CP-like disabilities for population data analysis
     • Approaches to population estimates of CP-like disabilities and therapy and equipment needs
     • Other issues relating to the population estimates of CP-like disabilities
     • Comparisons of disability patterns and support needs
     • Conclusion
  5. Focus groups
     • Introduction
     • What is therapy?
     • Efficacy of therapy
     • What is equipment?
     • Efficacy of equipment
     • Determining need for therapy and equipment
     • Accessing therapy and equipment
     • Top three things that would change clients'/families' lives
  6. Clients and activities of CP agencies
     • Introduction
     • Commonwealth-State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set
     • Diagnosis and severity: data provided by CP Australia agencies
     • Unmet need for therapy and equipment: data from some CP Australia agencies
     • An ideal equipment scheme?
     • Summary
  7. National population data on needs for assistance (300KB PDF)
     • Profile of support needs for people with CP and like disabilities
     • Type of assistance provided and extent to which need for assistance met
     • Conclusion
  8. Archetypal cases
     • Introduction
     • Method
     • Qualitative analysis of archetypal cases
     • Quantitative analysis of archetypal cases
     • Costing the therapy regimes
     • Therapists' estimates of unmet need among clients
     • Equipment issues
     • Discussion
  9. Answering the main questions
     • Do therapy and equipment make a difference?
     • The nature of met and unmet needs for therapy and equipment
     • The extent of met and unmet needs for therapy
     • Indications of the extent of met and unmet need for equipment
     • Conclusions
• End matter
  • Appendixes (346KB PDF)
    • Appendix A Tables
    • Appendix B Technical appendix on the ABS 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers
      • B.1 The survey
      • B.2 Disability
      • B.3 Long-term health condition
    • Appendix C Example case stories and therapy regimes
    • Appendix D Unit cost figures for the archetypal cases
    • Appendix E Archetypal cases professionals groups
  • References
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • List of boxes