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Community Living Brief: Framework for Building State Level Personal Assistance Services Infrastructure

06/30/2004 | Requests *

Summary

This brief addresses personal assistance services which are the hands-on support that people with disabilities use to participate more fully in community living. These services are related to personal care that people would do for themselves if not for a disability, e.g. bathing, eating, dressing, getting in or out of bed or a chair, using the toilet, housekeeping, these personal care services are known as Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs).

Author

Bezanson, Lee; Wittman, Melissa

Available Files

Community Living Brief, Vol 2 Issue 3 PDF (265K, 10 pages)
Community Living Brief, Vol 2 Issue 3 Text (21K)
Community Living Brief, Vol 2 Issue 3 (Spanish) PDF (271K, 11 pages)
Community Living Brief, Vol 2 Issue 3 (Spanish) Text (24K)

Keywords

Personal Assistant; State Level; Personal Assistance Services Infrastructure

Topic

Organizational Change, State/Agency Information

Type/Tool

Assessments, Newsletter, periodic publication

Source

ILRU

State

All States/Territories

Date Created

07/01/2004

Contact

Sharon Finney

sfinney@bcm.tmc.edu

Short URL

www.hcbs.org/moreInfo.php/doc/794

Permission to use any element of this document should be obtained by the above named contact person. Always name the originator as the source of this material.

* Reflects requests since January 1, 2007

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