Occupational Therapy Departments are concerned with improving the quality of life for disabled people of varying ages and the increasing number of frail elderly people. Increasing emphasis is being placed upon continuing life in the community and this calls for good communications between O.T. Departments and social services although there is no administrative link between them. For an O.T. Department to fulfill its role effectively there is a need for good and reliable data for planning and evaluation. This survey examines the problem in some detail.
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