Disaster case management and individuals with disabilities.
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Disaster case management and individuals with disabilities.
PURPOSE To examine the case management and disaster recovery needs of individuals with disabilities following Hurricane Katrina. The case managers and supervisors in this study provided case management to individuals with disabilities as part of the largest coordinated disaster case management program in U.S. history, the Katrina Aid Today consortium. This study provides an account of the disas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rehabilitation Psychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1939-1544,0090-5550
DOI: 10.1037/a0020079