HOW IN-HOME COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION WORKS IN AUSTRALIA
COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION IN AUSTRALIA-IN HOME SERVICES Picture credited to OneSourceCare INTRODUCTION Australia is a country that provides a real paradigm for Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) services. Through policies, regulations, and enacted laws, the country at all levels of government see the need for CBR as an efficient support-healthcare alternative for her citizens ( Source 1 ). As defined by the World HealthOrganization (W.H.O.) , CBR is "a strategy within community development for rehabilitation, equalization of opportunities, and social inclusion for all children and adults with disabilities."( Source 2 ) Disability, in the context of this paper, is viewed from the medical model which describes disability as a variation from the physical norm that can disadvantage the person physically vis-a-vis the quality of life. According to this view, barriers experienced by people with disabilities arise from individual functional limitations resulti...