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Summary
Dell Bootle was the Senior Occupational Therapist for Australia in the 1960s. From the tough reality of patients learning to walk on prosthetic legs, to the excitement of farewelling our first paralympic team to Rome, the home movie footage shot by Dell is alternately clinical and warm. This episode is a window into the dramatic changes (both good and bad) in rehabilitation care as well as an insight into Dell's powerful character - starchy and old fashioned, yet somehow ahead of her time
