CBR is “a strategy for enhancing the quality of life for the disabled people by improving service delivery, by providing more equitable opportunities and by promoting and protecting their human rights”.
The pre-requisites for CBR to become a reality have been described as “full and coordinated involvement of all levels of society” and “integration of the interventions of all relevant sectors – education, health, legislative, social and vocational and aims at full representation and empowerment of disabled people”. Quotations from Prejudice and Dignity by Einar Helander.
Community care is in favour of reducing the role of statutory services as providers, without going into the causes of their failure, and to encourage a steady growth of informal, voluntary and perhaps private services. The aims of CBR include adaptation of the physical and psychological environment that will facilitate the social integration and the self-actualisation of disabled people.
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COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION (CBR)