Table of contents
- Preliminary material (92KB PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Sections
- Introduction (270KB PDF)
- Project objectives and partners
- The service context: therapy and equipment
- Project components and methods
- Report outline
- Framework and foundations
- Frameworks, concepts and definitions
- Estimating unmet need: relating concepts to data
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Introduction (270KB PDF)
- 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
- Appendixes (346KB PDF)