TY - JOUR

T1 - I am who I am through who we are

T2 - The potential role of ubuntu in neurorehabilitation

AU - Coetzer, Bernardus

AU - Yeates, Giles

AU - Balchin, Ross

AU - Schmidt, Karen

N1 - Panamerican Journal of Neuropsychology is a quatermetral publication, with an open access policy (RoMEO bluepublisher), which publishes works in Spanish, Portuguese and English, all manuscripts are evaluated by two or more international peers, using the double-blind system.

PY - 2018/5

Y1 - 2018/5

N2 - This paper explores the African concept of ubuntu, and its potential to influence our thinking about the delivery of long-term health and social care within a neurorehabilitation context. Particular consideration is given to the potential importance of achieving longer-term social connectedness for clients and their relatives after neuro-rehabilitation interventions have finished. A short case vignette, and a hospital-based practice report, are provided as two examples to illustrate some of the key points made. Incorporating some aspects of the philosophy of ubuntu could potentially help neurorehabilitation programmes to include the reduction social disability as a more explicit longer-term goal for outcome.

AB - This paper explores the African concept of ubuntu, and its potential to influence our thinking about the delivery of long-term health and social care within a neurorehabilitation context. Particular consideration is given to the potential importance of achieving longer-term social connectedness for clients and their relatives after neuro-rehabilitation interventions have finished. A short case vignette, and a hospital-based practice report, are provided as two examples to illustrate some of the key points made. Incorporating some aspects of the philosophy of ubuntu could potentially help neurorehabilitation programmes to include the reduction social disability as a more explicit longer-term goal for outcome.

KW - Ubuntu

KW - Neurorehabilitation

KW - Practice Report

U2 - 10.7714/CNPS/12.2.208

DO - 10.7714/CNPS/12.2.208

M3 - Article

VL - 12

JO - Panamerican Journal of Neuropsychology

JF - Panamerican Journal of Neuropsychology

SN - 0718-4123

IS - 2

ER -