[Frambu Health Center: information to families with functionally impaired members]

Frambu Health Centre is an information and treatment centre serving many different categories of disabled children and their families, primarily Norwegian but also from the other Scandinavian countries. The aim is to support the family in their task of caring for the disabled person, and to improve the handicapped person's ability to function despite the disablement both in the home and at school or at work. The staff at the centre are specialised in the management of rare and poorly understood conditions, and work in cooperation with the appropriate services in the person's home town. A certain amount of research is also carried out at the centre into the life situation of handicapped people.