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TRANSPORT OF HANDICAPPED PERSONS BY CAR
Author(s) -
Ferguson David
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb93428.x
Subject(s) - rehabilitation , passenger transport , psychology , disabled people , business , road transport , transport engineering , medical education , medical emergency , applied psychology , engineering , medicine , life style , neuroscience
Difficulties encountered in the transport of handicapped persons by car were investigated by inspections at rehabilitation units, by interviews with patients, drivers, professional staff of institutions and transport contractors, and by photography of particular transfer situations. Information was found to be lacking on the size and nature of the difficulties. There was no agreed classification of handicaps for transport. Formal training of institutional staff and drivers In this area was almost nonexistent. Cars are ill‐designed for the thousands of journeys and a consequent fourfold number of transfers of handicapped persons into and out of cars made every day in Australia. Problems associated with transport increase the social degradation of disabled people. Needs in the correction of the present situation are reviewed. Medical institutions have a responsibility to ensure that comfort and rehabilitation of patients do not suffer because of failure to consider difficulties in transport.