TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gilbert, Peter
AB - A Dangerous Vacuum: guest editorial Seeking Positive Outcomes for Young People with Disabilities Peter Gilbert INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT I want to use this editorial to point out how the development and expectations of health partners. Funding current divisions in services, not just between agencies, for hospital discharge has helped, but the budget for people but also between adult and children’s services, work to with disabilities is under increasing strain. She knows the the disadvantage of young people with disabilities. reasons for much of this: medical technology preserving the This is as a preliminary to an in-depth look at children lives of many profoundly disabled children who wouldn’t with disability in a coming Issue of MCC. have survived a few years ago, more people with complex needs (multiple disabilities, autism etc) at all stages of life, Why do we allow the scenario below to arise so and people living longer with ageing and increasingly frail commonly? parents. ‘Alan’ is twenty-three years old. He has learning Structural changes have not always helped achieve the disabilities with autistic tendencies and has been attending strong partnership approach required to make the system residential school and then college for nine years. Soon he work for 
TI - A Dangerous Vacuum Seeking Positive Outcomes for Young People with Disabilities
JF - Journal of Integrated Care
DO - 10.1108/14769018200200030
DA - 2002-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/a-dangerous-vacuum-seeking-positive-outcomes-for-young-people-with-zZb5iYUKef
SP - 2
EP - 4
VL - 10
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -