Rehabilitation

Dr Ann Hood is chief executive of Refugees as Survivors NZ, which provides mental health and other health care services to refugees at the Mangere Resettlement Centre. Her organisation works with… Audio

For over seven years a dedicated group of volunteers have been passing on their quilting and life skills to prisoners at Auckland Region Women's Correctional Facility. The group is led by Mary Ann… Audio, Gallery

The exercise physiology clinic at the University of Auckland combines exercise for rehabilitation with teaching and research Audio

Researchers hope that electrical brain stimulation, like that used to treat Parkinson's disease, may help people who've had a stroke regain their movements Audio

The challenges to plan for those who are released from Australian/New Zealand prisons in order to re-establish them safely back into society. With A. Prof. Stuart Kinner from the Melbourne School of… Audio

An investigation has found a rehab centre took a client's benefit money, failed to provide alcohol treatment, encouraged him to stop taking his medication and allowed him access to knives and air… Audio

Ron Nikkel is President Emeritus of Prison Fellowship International, the world's largest and most extensive criminal justice ministry with 128 affiliates around the world, overseeing 50,000… Audio

Haka and poi are to be used to rehabilitate stroke survivors in Britain. Audio

Born in Te Teko, Takurua works as a Counsellor at Moana House, a rehabilitation programme based in Dunedin. He works alongside adult male offenders and teaches behavioural and social issues to help… Audio

Researchers are using brain activity to control robots and the technology may one day help patients with stroke or spinal injury Audio

Stroke rehabilitation technology that uses an adapted video games console to restore and improve movement. With Fiona and Colin Weston and Elliott Kernohan, the CEO of Im-Able. Audio

President of the World Federation of Neurology who was instrumental in establishing the world's first successful acute stroke unit. Audio

New Zealand has one of the highest imprisonment rates in the developed world and more than half of those released from our prisons find themselves back behind bars within five years. Ideas takes a… Audio

A mechatronics team are developing medical devices to help stroke patients with the rehabilitation of movement Audio

In the second of our two part look at imprisonment we focus on rehabilitation. Psychologist Dr Paul Wood, who completed two degrees while serving a sentence for murder, reflects on the impact a long… Audio

This week, Ideas looks at crime, punishment and rehabilitation. Audio