Debra Frankel This is Me

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1. 1. National MS Society : Plaintalk

   www.nationalmssociety.org/site - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/9/2007   Last Visited: 2/25/2008

   by Sarah L. Minden, M.D., and Debra Frankel, M.S., O.T.R.
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   Debra Frankel, M.S., O.T.R., is a member of the Society's Client Education Committee and is currently involved in an MS research project at Abt Associates, Inc.

2. 2. www.nationalmssociety.org

   www.nationalmssociety.org/IMSW - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/1/2002   Last Visited: 3/4/2007

   "People with major disabilities may accept abuse because they feel they have no other options," said Debra Frankel, senior services consultant for the National MS Society and program specialist with the Massachusetts Chapter. "They don't report it because they fear they will be abandoned, deprived of the care they need, or confined to a nursing home. These fears are, at least in part, based on reality. Reaching out for better options can mean a long struggle."
   
   The Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission asked Ms. Frankel and Dr. Sarah Minden, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, to study records of abuse cases in that state involving people with MS. Their investigation, funded by a grant from the National MS Society and conducted at Abt Associates, Inc., a health and social policy research organization in Cambridge, Mass., found that abuse took the form of neglect, omission of needed services, and verbal emotional attacks in the majority of reported cases.
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   "Caregivers may not understand MS adequately," Ms. Frankel said. She told this story: A man whose wife had MS for years simply did not understand that she could be able to dress independently one day, and be too tired to do so the next. "Why can't you do that?" he lashed out at her.
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   "If caregivers have not been taught how to safely transfer someone in and out of wheelchairs, toilet seats, beds, car seats, and bathtubs, the result may be impatience and rough handling," Ms. Frankel said.

3. 3. National Multiple Sclerosis Society - Brochures

   www.nationalmssociety.com/Broc - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/19/2005   Last Visited: 3/19/2005

   by Sarah L. Minden, M.D., and Debra Frankel, M.S., O.T.R.
   ...
   Debra Frankel, M.S., O.T.R., is a member of the Society's Client Education Committee and is currently involved in an MS research project at Abt Associates, Inc.