ABSTRACT
Analysis of community care and issues for people with disabilities necessitates discussion of how we define the group and the impact of traditional public perceptions. This area of community care is deeply marked by the ideological social construction of identity, and the related underprovision of services for people with disabilities. But the history of marginalisation has in its turn produced a distinctive collective response - some argue indeed a new social movement (Oliver, 1996) - which has placed the issue of civil rights and self-organisation firmly at the forefront of community care legislation.
