Consumer participation in designing community based consumer-directed disability care: Lessons from a participatory action research-inspired project

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-44

  Ottmann, Goetz ^a   Laragy, Carmel ^b   Damonze, Gillian ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Uniting Care Community Options   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Community disability services; Consumer directed care; Participation; Policy development

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549090693     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-008-9110-z     Document Type: Article

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