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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Disability Grant"”.
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Disability grant utilization and barriers to access for patients with personality pathology: A mixed methods study
… health and social services, including the disability grant, might be a process with unique barriers for this group of patients. This study aims to investigate barriers that patients with PD (disorder or traits) experience in accessing the government disability grant. Methods A multi-method …
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Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment
Disability is a universally difficult concept to define and assess for social assistance and social insurance purposes. The ways in which access to disability welfare rights are defined and allocated remain especially neglected in the Global South. This thesis examines the administration of the …
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The role of the disability grant in the lives of visually disabled adults on the Cape Flats
… to the effectiveness of cash transfers like the disability grant in minimising poverty for disabled adults and their families. There is a great interest in understanding what determines the different ways of grant usage amongst beneficiaries and how it contributes to claiming their social rights. …
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The role and function of a disability grant and perceived benefit for persons on HAART in Masiphumelele Community
… context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa Disability Grants are playing a major role in alleviating poverty. In HIV-affected households in the community of Masiphumelele in Cape Town they are most often the only source of income. The high unemployment rate in South Africa together with …
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An investigation of the lived reality of the disjuncture between policy and practice in the implementation of South Africa's disability grant
… poverty, this right is even more pertinent. The Disability Grant, being the only grant available to people in their working years has been widely discussed in its role as a method of poverty alleviation as well as functioning as a de facto Chronic Illness Grant and an Unemployment Grant. Although …
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A case study on the experiences of persons with disabilities of the disability grant processes occurring at SASSA Springbok in the Northern Cape
… research has been published which focused on the disability grant in the South African context. More specifically, no research has been conducted in the Northern Cape, home to a high proportion of persons with disabilities. Of the research conducted in other parts of South Africa, no studies have …
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Evaluation of policy regulating access to South African Social Security Agency's disability grants in Umlazi township
… social assistance in the form of older person's grant, disability grant, child support grant, foster care grant, war veteran grant, care dependency grant and social relief of distress. The provision of a disability grant is prescribed in Section 9 of the afore-mentioned Act which sets out the …
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The profile of patients attending the Groote Schuur Hospital Chronic Pain Management Clinic
… status. They were also more likely to be on a disability grant and suffer from anxiety and depression. Conclusion The profile of the patients attending the CPMC was found to be similar to those from WEIRD countries. These results suggest that we can apply global data of people with chronic pain …
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An investigation into the families of physically disabled children
… future. But the discovery that the child has a disability changes everything. The family into which this disabled child is born undergoes major changes, as they have to accommodate such a child. Siblings compete with the disabled child's needs for parental attention, and are required to …
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The influence of traditional healing practices on anti-retroviral treatment adherence in Vhembe District, South Africa
… lack of trust in ARVs and fear of loss of the Disability Grant. It is on this backdrop that study findings prompted devising of a model and a 5 phase support program for intervention.
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The use of tramadol at the Groote Schuur chronic pain management clinic (CPMC): a medicine usage evaluation
… included in this MUE was female, receiving a disability grant and in their late fifties (57.28y ±12.32). A median of three comorbidities (IQR 4) were recorded in the folders. The median duration of clinic attendance was 10,5 years (IQR 11,5). Chronic spinal pain (61%) was the most common …
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Experiences of social service professionals in the iLembe Municipality in rendering services to children with disabilities
… According to the Integrated National Disability Strategy (1997), there is often a low life-expectancy for people with severe disabilities living in rural areas due to inadequate care, support and access to some of the most basic services. A high level of knowledge and access to …
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Caregivers' experiences, perspectives and expectations regarding diagnosis and management in children with MMHL: Information and support
… recommended that children with MMHL get a care disability grant. The findings of the current study affirm the previous research by highlighting the importance of providing caregivers with unbiased information. Results of the current study also highlight the importance of early identification and …
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Gender Inequalities in Access to Tuberculosis Services in South Africa
… men were significantly less likely to receive a disability grant (AOR, 0.48; 95% CI, [0.36, 0.63]), and among acceptability-related variables men were significantly less likely to judge the length of queues to be too long or the cleanliness of the facility to be substandard (AOR, 0.69; 95% CI, …
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Discursive Psychology: Meta-theoretical applications for clinical Psychology
… unit - a certified psychiatric patient whose disability grant is threatened, and includes examples of individual psychotherapy sessions. Each case study includes full transcripts of sessions, and is enclosed on a CD-ROM using the Adobe Acrobat™ PDF format. The transcripts are indexed to …
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Improving the administration of disability grants in South Africa’s social security agency
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Doctor of Management Sciences degree in Public Administration at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Disbursing of social security grants : a case of uMgungundlovu District, South Africa
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Management Sciences Degree in Public Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2020.