title: Federal legislative history of independent living programs.
abstract: In some respects, passage by the US Congress of the 1978 Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act (PL95-602) marked the beginning of federal involvement in the independent-living movement. For the 1st time a program was created whose primary goal is to help disabled persons to live independently; previous programs have been designed to help such persons become employable. This paper briefly examines the roots of PL95-602 and identifies how this new law represents a major new direction in the rehabilitation movement. The purposes and goals of the advocates of independent living have changed in the past decade and the new law reflects those changes.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010358:Patient Participation; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States