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What is the cost of assistive technology? Handbook for the cost analysis of independent life support project
Record number: 91
Last update: May 2003
Type of document: Manuals or books
Last update: May 2003
Type of document: Manuals or books
Author: Andrich R, Moi M
Editorial data: Milano: Fondazione Don Gnocchi, 1998
Year of publication: 1998
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The process of choice, adoption and I use of technical assistive devices is involved a great number of actors and resources of varied nature. In order to correctly estimate the ***socioeconomici impacts of such technologies it is necessary to adopt one perspective of long period and to consider all the members of the been involved society (the person with disability that uses the technology, the relatives and the primary network, National the Sanitary Service, etc). This handbook proposes an innovative methodology and an operating instrument for the analysis cost-result in the which individualized projects of support to the independent life. In particular, the instrument concentrates on the cost analysis generated from programs of supply of technical assistive devices for the independence and social integration of persons with disability. Same (choice and adoption come analyzed are the costs of the decisional process) are the costs that are generated in the time in consequence to the which fetched decisions (normal use). This volume collects the main result of the Finalized “Development and experimentation of methodologies for the analysis cost-benefits in the field of the assistive devices for the persons persons with disability”, which promoted Search and financed ***dal the Ministry of Health, and lead in biennium 1996-97 ***dall' the IRCCS Foundation For ***Juventute Don Carlo Gnocchi of Milan.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The process of choice, adoption and I use of technical assistive devices is involved a great number of actors and resources of varied nature. In order to correctly estimate the ***socioeconomici impacts of such technologies it is necessary to adopt one perspective of long period and to consider all the members of the been involved society (the person with disability that uses the technology, the relatives and the primary network, National the Sanitary Service, etc). This handbook proposes an innovative methodology and an operating instrument for the analysis cost-result in the which individualized projects of support to the independent life. In particular, the instrument concentrates on the cost analysis generated from programs of supply of technical assistive devices for the independence and social integration of persons with disability. Same (choice and adoption come analyzed are the costs of the decisional process) are the costs that are generated in the time in consequence to the which fetched decisions (normal use). This volume collects the main result of the Finalized “Development and experimentation of methodologies for the analysis cost-benefits in the field of the assistive devices for the persons persons with disability”, which promoted Search and financed ***dal the Ministry of Health, and lead in biennium 1996-97 ***dall' the IRCCS Foundation For ***Juventute Don Carlo Gnocchi of Milan.
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