Publication Date
2007
64 p
"The aim of the conference was to bring together stakeholders from different sectors, in order to create a forum for discussing innovative solutions to emerging issues affecting caregivers in community based organisations. Objectives included focusing on the challenges of care to women and children, identifying good home-based care practices, discussing policy and legal frameworks for home-based care, raising awareness of caregivers’ needs, exploring how to engage men in home-based care, and establishing networks for lobbying and advocacy"
Meeting:Challenges of care : VSO-RAISA Regional Conference Report BackPretoria, South Africa1 - 2 November 2007
View webpage for full text
Keywords
Cross-cutting; advocacy; Disability and social diversity; children with disabilities; men with disabilities; women with disabilities; Health; diseases: communicable diseases (CD); systems: health workforce; Politics government and economics; collaboration; Programme/ Project; good practices; stakeholders engagement; Rehabilitation; therapeutic (treatment)