What Is Community-Based Rehabilitation: An Implication of the Roles of Community Occupational Therapists in Hong Kong

In the past two decades ‘decarceration’ and ‘deinstitutionalisation’ have been key themes of youth justice in the West. Restrictions have been imposed on the courts, limiting their ability to hand out residential and custodial training sentences to young offenders. As an alternative, resources have been redirected into the development and expansion of community-based rehabilitation programmes. However, in Hong Kong large numbers of young offenders continue to be placed in residential and custodial institutions after very brief criminal careers, and for crimes which do not pose a serious risk to the community. This article makes use of a recently published research study to discuss the experiences of young male offenders in the Hong Kong youth justice system, and to consider why community-based rehabilitative programmes as direct alternatives to residential training and custody have been slow to develop. It then goes on to explore how from a cultural perspective the use of community-based programmes might be justified and how they could be developed around existing sentencing guidelines.

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Community-Based Rehabilitation in Hong Kong

Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population - Advances in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch016 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 294-319

Author(s):

Kar-wai Tong ◽

Kenneth N. K. Fong

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Community Care ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Community Based ◽

Term Care ◽

Hospital System ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

The Government ◽

Public Hospital System

Community care is one of the worldwide strategies for governments to manage contemporary healthcare challenges and long-term care. In response to an ageing population, the Hong Kong government has been promoting the concepts of community care and made initiatives, inter alia, in community-based rehabilitation (CBR). Despite these new drives, there is insufficient supply of CBR services. Provisions of CBR are currently fragmented, project-based, or on a self-financed basis. The authors argue that there is a lack of longer-term plan on CBR and that the government still relies on the heavily subsidized public hospital system. In this chapter, the authors share their views on the opportunities and challenges of CBR in Hong Kong.

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Community-Based Rehabilitation in Hong Kong

Research Anthology on Rehabilitation Practices and Therapy ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3432-8.ch050 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1029-1054

Author(s):

Kar-wai Tong ◽

Kenneth N. K. Fong

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Community Care ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Community Based ◽

Term Care ◽

Hospital System ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

The Government ◽

Public Hospital System

Community care is one of the worldwide strategies for governments to manage contemporary healthcare challenges and long-term care. In response to an ageing population, the Hong Kong government has been promoting the concepts of community care and made initiatives, inter alia, in community-based rehabilitation (CBR). Despite these new drives, there is insufficient supply of CBR services. Provisions of CBR are currently fragmented, project-based, or on a self-financed basis. The authors argue that there is a lack of longer-term plan on CBR and that the government still relies on the heavily subsidized public hospital system. In this chapter, the authors share their views on the opportunities and challenges of CBR in Hong Kong.

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Neighbourhood support to families with a disabled child: observations on a coping strategy of caregivers in a Jamaican community-based rehabilitation programme

Child Care Health and Development ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2214.1996.816816.x ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 22 (6) ◽

pp. 397-410 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R Bischoff ◽

M J Thorburn ◽

P Reitmaier

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategy ◽

Rehabilitation Programme ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation

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Community-Based Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities and Its Contribution to the Protection of Children

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e500792015-318 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jose Campang ◽

Emma Estrada

Keyword(s):

Children With Disabilities ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation

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CAPACITY BUILDING PENGURUS REHABILITASI BERBASIS MASYARAKAT DALAM PELAYANAN TERHADAP PENYANDANG DISABILITAS DI KELURAHAN BABAKAN CIPARAY KECAMATAN BABAKAN CIPARAY KOTA BANDUNG

Pekerjaan Sosial ◽

10.31595/peksos.v18i1.159 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Arif Setiadi

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Community Based ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

Building Community

Capacity Building adalah proses peningkatan kemampuan pengurus Rehabilitasi Berbasis Masyarakat (RBM) dalam memberikan pelayanan kepada penyandang disabilitas, sehingga penyandang disabilitas dapat mengakses pelayanan yang dibutuhkan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengkaji tentang Capacity Building Pengurus Rehabilitasi Berbasis Masyarakat dalam Pelayanan terhadap Penyandang Disabilitas di Kelurahan Babakan Ciparay Kecamatan Babakan Ciparay Kota Bandung. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan design action research. Sumber yang digunakan adalah sumber data primer dan sumber data sekunder. Adapun teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara mendalam, observasi partisipatif, studi dokumentasi, dan Penilaian Kapasitas. Teknik pemeriksaan data yang digunakan yaitu uji kepercayaan, uji keteralihan, uji ketergantungan dan uji kepastian. Selanjutnya hasil penelitian ini di analisis menggunakan teknik analisis kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa capacity building terhadap pengurus RBM Kelurahan Babakan Ciparay membawa perubahan dalam memberikan pelayanan kepada penyandang disabilitas. Capacity Building pengurus RBM tersebut berdampak pada pelayanan terhadap penyandang disabilitas menjadi lebih komprehensif dan berbasis metode serta teknik pekerjaan sosial. Keywords: Capacity Building, Community-Based Rehabilitation, Persons With Disabilities

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Equity and the distribution of rehabilitation personnel in one health district in the Western Cape

South African Journal of Physiotherapy ◽

10.4102/sajp.v57i4.513 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 4-8

Author(s):

P. Struthers

Keyword(s):

One Health ◽

District Level ◽

Health District ◽

Western Cape ◽

Community Based ◽

State Institutions ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

Recurrent Cost ◽

The Cost ◽

Rehabilitation Personnel

This paper describes a situation analysis of the rehabilitation personnel, employed by the state and non-governmental organisations, and the services available for people with disabilities in one health district in Cape Town. The recurrent cost of employing the rehabilitation personnel is analysed to determine how funding is allocated within the district. The results indicate that most expenditure on personnel is at two state institutions in the district, with 76% of the expenditure at the regional psychiatric hospital and its residential facility for people with a profound intellectual disability. The balance - 24% of expenditure - is the cost of employing rehabilitation personnel who provide a district level service. Seventy percent of this district level expenditure is at one special school that accepts 6% of children with disabilities in the district. A high percentage of intellectually disabled children and adults, with or without physical disabilities, do not have access to rehabilitation. There is minimal expenditure on employing rehabilitation personnel at the community heath centre. The only expenditure on community based rehabilitation is provided by the non-governmental organisation. The study demonstrates the inequitable distribution of funding for rehabilitation services within one relatively well-resourced health district and makes recommendations to facilitate change.

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