Yes, Barry Corbet's work should be remembered. Barry was injured in 1968, and died in 2004.
"Options" was a book that was developed along with Barry's production of the first ("Changes" 1972?) and second ("Outside" 1978) of his 3 seminal films related to SCI (the third being "Survivors" 1989). Although the films are a bit dated now days, I still used both the two latter films through this year in education of SCI staff to help them understand better some of the issues related to SCI. "Changes" was about new injury and getting through rehab, "Outside" about living in the community with a SCI, and "Survivors" addressed many issues of aging with SCI. Unfortunately these are all out of print, as is "Options".
Barry was also the founding editor of "New Mobility" magazine; a position he held for many years. "New Mobility started as the "Spinal Network Extra" newsletter (started by Sam Maddox). He also spoke widely at conferences and workshops for both people with SCI and health care professionals who worked with people with SCI. I was fortunate to be able to call him "friend".
Barry became a spokesman for aging with SCI in his last 20 years of life and wrote a number of articles (for publications such as New Mobility and AARP magazine) on this topic. You might find some of these enlightening as you are addressing these issues yourself.
http://barrycorbet.com/
http://www.newmobility.com/2013/09/p...ed-no-regrets/
http://www.newmobility.com/2014/12/e...-nursing-home/
(KLD)