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Older people – disconnectionbetween services and fundingstream“…what’s extremely frustrating is you end up prescribingthe wheelchair and the patient for example will go tonursing home and then there are different rules right, ok,so people may be requiring this, just because they go tonursing home because there is no funding or whateverthen they don’t get it. Even though it makes medicalsense, even though it makes rehab sense, even though it’sgoing to make them more independent in theenvironment. But that’s just the show stopper. That’s it,there is nothing you can do, that is extremely frustrating.”[MC1, p.5, Data Set 10]26/11/2012Dr Rosemary Joan GowranUniversity of Limerick
Vital Meaning of WSAT appearsmisunderstoodAppears to be a lack of understanding ofthe urgency for the development ofsustainable provision26/11/2012Dr Rosemary Joan GowranUniversity of Limerick
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