Description
The purpose of this paper is to indicate a framework for exploiting the role of assistive technology (AT) in supporting care and participation of people with disabilities and elderly people through appropriate service delivery systems (SDS).
The first chapter (Background) discusses the reasons why the Scientific Society AAATE and the EASTIN Association deemed useful to produce a position paper on this issue, based on the findings of an international workshop held in Copenhagen in 2012.
The second chapter (The scope of an AT SDS), discusses the concept of assistive solutions – intended as individualised interventions providing users with appropriate environmental facilitators (AT products, personalised environmental modifications, personal assistance) to overcome disability and enable participation in all aspects of life – and the mission of a SDS – ensuring that all people with disabilities can access appropriate assistive solutions that are able to support autonomy in their life environment. The paper also points out that AT service delivery policies should be well coordinated with accessibility policies i.e. those related to infrastructural interventions ensuring that the mainstream environment, products and services are usable by all people, including those with reduced function or who depend on assistive technology.
The third chapter (Basic features of an AT SDS) discusses why public SDS are needed for AT, what the main AT SDS models are, and how a SDS process can be described and monitored in terms of quality. The discussion is organised into answers to eight research questions.
The last chapter (Some recommendations) provides a number of useful recommendations for those who are engaged in the design, development and implementation of AT SDS policies. The recommendations are clustered round the six SDS quality indicators suggested by the European HEART Study: Accessibility, Competence, Coordination, Efficiency, Flexibility, User Influence.
Objet (selon la classification ISO des produits d'assistance)
- Produits d'assistance au traitement médical individuel (ISO 04)
- Produits d'assistance attachés au corps pour soutenir les fonctions de l'appareil locomoteur et liées au mouvement (orthèses) et remplacer les structures anatomiques (prothèses) (ISO 06)
- Produits d'assistance aux activités d'entretien personnel et à la participation à l'entretetien personnel (ISO 09)
- Produits d'assistance aux activités et à la participation en rapport avec la mobilirté personnelle et le transport (ISO 12)
- Produits d'assistance aux activités domestiques et à la participation à vie domestique (ISO 15)
- Aménagements, accessoires et autres produits d'assistance aux activités de soutien dans les environnements intérieurs et extérieurs créés par l'homme (ISO 18)
- Produits d'assistance à la gestion de la communication et à l'information (ISO 22)
- Produits d'assistance pour contrôler, porter, déplacer et manipuler des objets et des dispositifs (ISO 24)
- Produits d'assistance pour contrôler, adapter ou mesurer les éléments des environnements physiques (ISO 27)
- Produits d'assistance à la récréation et aux loisirs (ISO 30)