The support of the long term neurological cripple

The term 'long term neurological cripple' is an unattractive and yet an all embracing one, covering a wide spectrum of disorders from spina bifida or cerebral palsy with or without associated epilepsy and behavioural and learning problems, through muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, and motor neurone disease, to the effects of head injury, cerebrovascular lesions and the degenerative disorders of later life such as Parkinson's disease and the senile and presenile dementias. Whilst many of the problems are common to several of these entities, each has its own particular aspects.