Rehabilitation for disabilities

Rehabilitation for disabilitiesRehabilitation for people with disabilities is a process which is aimed at enabling them to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychological and social functional levels. Rehabilitation helps in providing people with disability a need to attain independence and self-determination.

Personality is defined as the combination of characteristics which form an Individual’s distinctive character. Personality disorder refers to a way of thinking, feeling and behaving which differs from the expectations of the culture, thus, causes distress or problems functioning.

Social Aspects of Rehabilitation,

The social aspects of rehabilitation includes,

• Ensuring the follow-up of victims, assessing their needs and resources and giving support, encouragement and guidance

.• Keeping in contact with concerned authorities and community agencies for co-ordination purposes, through a specially designated person.

• Helping arrange for the resumption of children schooling, in co-operation with the proper authorities, if there is a prolonged shelter operation.

• Planning or continuing activities that will contribute to the rehabilitation effort, such as: recreational programmes, special programmes for the elderly and the disabled.

Economic Aspects of Rehabilitation

The economic aspects of rehabilitation includes,

• Target those individuals and families whose economic security has been most threatened by the disaster.

• Replace household economic assets lost in the disaster, such as tools, seeds, agricultural animals.• Where old economic activities cannot be restored National Societies should consider programmes to stimulate the growth of new activities which will be directly accessible by the most vulnerable.