There are many Physically disabled People whase Particular needs are not

covered by any other agency or government
others who cannot ineet the cast of rehab

aeparimeni, and there are many

ilitation services they require. These

ere the people who, in B.C. are helped bythe K. insmen Rehabilitation Foundu-

tion’s direct and indirect Prograns,

Patient Care
Department

of the KRF, in the 1979-80 fiscal year, pro-
vided over 1100 Services to children and
adults in B.C.
Typical of the Many services provided were:
® appliances, such as braces, artificial
limbs, orithopaedie shecs, lifts, eie.;
& accommodativa and transportation ex-
Penses to medical Centres,

The departinent’s Equipment Loan Program
Provides people with such items as ramps,
wheelchairs, elevators, hospital beds, walk-
ing aids, ele. ona free permanent loan basis.
There is a regular program of follow-up for
repait and maintenance of the loaned items,

The Public
Awareness
Department

The Disabled
Living
Resource
Centre

tieets 1 long recognized aved in providing unswers
ON any subject related fo the Hives of Physically
handic: aped People, with the exception of
Medical mattery,

The Centre is an addition to the existing Patient
Care and Technical Aids Programs of the Foanda.
tion, and is the only one of its kind in Canada.
Subjects covered range from bathrooms, clothing
ang cencral household equipment, to mobility
aids, acconinadation, employment and leisure ac.
fivines,

Featured are displays of aids io daily living for
disabled People, including actual equipment.
These are augmented by pictorial and audio-visual
Tepresentations.

Tt provides fullest details on availability of aids,
their source and price, as well as in information
and referral service,

The ea» 2nttOls
Technica \ Ly) / |
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Aids Program C= 4

Provides the almost totally disabled Person
With: some control and/or means of com.
Munieation through electronic equipment
activaied by se sitive micro Switches. The
Foundation Dioncered this ype of equip-
ment in Canada and, since the first unit was
installed in 1973, over two hundred have
been placed by the KRF with Severely disabl.
ed persons in B.C., more than the total in the
rest of the country, This equipracnt gives
them 2 degree of self-reliance, limited but
Cherished, to do everyday things for
themselves — things that we all take for
eranted. The Foundation js also now to the
fore in providing electronic aids to severely
disabled People who have also lost the Power
of speech, enabling them to communicate.

is an important part of the reha tation programs of KRF, fy works to awake
xudlic of the needs of the handicapped. Through the or

Publication of the KRF's Quarterly journal, IMAGE, and other Projects,

Hon professionals, and Physically disabted Persons, af the KRF*

new developments in the fleld of rehabilitation, Although separ,

the Publ; - Awareness Department designs and implements the

the
tebabitita-
ides, and of >
of the KKF,
March Publicity cam. Ley

Indirect Programs

om’

Assistance to the physically disabled through
Foundation grants to:

Vocational Services
* Garth Homer Seciety for the

Handicapped, Victoria

Medical Services
ao*e Canadian Hemophilia Society (B.C,
Division)
* Poison Control Centre, Vancouver
General Hospital

Program Review ‘& Development Services
* Canadian Rehabilitation Council for
the Disabled
* SPARC of B.C. (Panel on
Handicapped, 4 committee of the
Sovial Planning and Review Council
of B.C.)

Self Help Groups
* BC, Wheelchair Sports Assocation
* Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
* B.C. Coalition for the Disabled
* Handicapped Action Committee
* Pearson Hospital