"The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Rehabilitation in Europe: - Effects on Individuals and Rehabilitaion management"

The 9th European Regional and 3rd Danish Conference on Rehabilitation presented examples of good rehabilitation practice and scientific work from all areas: the health sector, social services, work and employment, the educational field, recreation and physical activities, as well as technology and accessibility. Rehabilitation is a multi‐disciplinary process involving a variety of stakeholders; therefore the conference was geared towards Government, disabled persons, employers, insurers, rehabilitation‐professionals as well as medical practitioners. 

The conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the 9th and 10th of November 2010.
  
The program consisted of 5 plenary sessions with 15 presentations and 2 parallel sessions with more than 50 presentations, as well as more than 20 poster presentations. More than 300 participants, from 25 different countries participated in the conference.

Powerpoint presentations from plenary and parallel sessions are now uploaded (with a few exceptions) and can be found by clicking on the programme and the session you wish to download from.
Link to programme

Click here to download the full collection of abstracts


Five key topics were adressed in plenary and parallel sessions:

1. The Political Perspective:
The role of the state/government in rehabilitation on the European, national and regional level

2. User Participation:
Market based, individual plans and social contracts, user-perspectives

3. Rehabilitation as an Investment:
Inclusive labour market and the concept of flexicurity, early intervention, prevention, employer perspective, societal interest

4. Case Management:
The responsibility of case managers, the role of personal coaching, cross sector coordination, best practice in case-management

5. Quality Criteria:
How to provide for quality assurance, development of quality, ICF, what does quality in rehabilitation mean?