Delivery of outreach rehabilitation services: one Canadian experience

Issue title: Rural Technology

Guest editors: T. Scott Smith

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Greene, Gayle

Affiliations: Terry Fox Mobile Clinic, The Rehabilitation Centre, 505 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M2, Canada

Abstract: The Terry Fox Mobile Rehabilitation Clinic has served adults with physical disabilities who reside in rural communities outside of the Ottawa area since 1983. It provides clinical support to these adults, their families and their communities' health care providers through a consultation model. Education, evaluation activities and advocacy are also key elements of the Mobile Clinic. The delivery of assistive technology was a major reason for its development and continues today in the provision of a multi-disciplinary team approach to outreach rehabilitation.

Keywords: Outreach, Community rehabilitation, Canadian outreach, Rehabilitation teamwork, Community

DOI: 10.3233/TAD-1995-4107

Journal: Technology and Disability, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 43-47, 1995