The Chosen Service User Groups Of People With A Physical Disability And A Young Carer

People can learn practical living skills on a day-to-day basis. It is important therefore that care workers recognize opportunities and give the appropriate support. If a person is living in a supported living environment, the opportunities to learn life skills can be effectively embedded on a regular basis. For example, while the support workers helping the person to do their shopping use public transport or access a service such as a cinema, there are opportunities to develop communication, organization and numeracy skills. When planning activities the support worker, with the person, should recognize and seize opportunities for that person to develop valuable learning and life skills. Shopping trips can be a useful learning opportunity – for example, when planning what is needed, writing lists, organizing where to go and keeping within

■ Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Community Services and the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care on Children and Young Persons with a Disability, and;

The majority of carers are women (finch and groves 1983) and significant proportions are under the age of 18. This is known as a young carer, which is defined as ‘someone, under the age of 18, who looks after, or helps to care for, a family member who has a disability, mental ill health, a blood borne virus or a problematic use of drugs or alcohol. They may provide hands-on caring, and/or may be affected themselves by someone in their family who needs care’ (Dundee Carers Centre, 2009). There are difficulties identifying young carers because many do not disclose their caring role for fear of being separated from their parents and family members, bullying and social exclusion. Also there is a large amount of emotional strain for younger carers who do not access the services they are entitled to.

A practitioner with an individual with a disability in their care could engage assistive technology to help the child carry out tasks that may otherwise be difficult. This will also benefit the child’s social development as they will feel included in being able to carry out similar tasks as their peers. Keeping a direct link with intervention such as SLC therapists, social workers and physiotherapists can be a key aspect of meeting children’s needs when necessary to do so; alongside this providing security and stable relationships for children to reply on and understanding changes in behaviour. These are important adaptations when referring to children with behavioural issues, disability or children going through emotional

Little research has been carried out considering the views of care leavers themselves through their experiences transitioning from looked-after children to independence, even sparser within the UK. Legislation has been set to assist practitioners and service users during this stage, providing Social Workers with a duty of care to care leavers (Brayne, Carr and Goosey, 2015). Stein (2006) presented ideas of care leavers either ‘moving on’, ‘getting by’ or ‘going under’ (cited in Pinkerton and Rooney, 2014, p.4). Finding differences between responses were related to quality of care provided as a looked-after child, preparation and support provided after leaving care. This develops scope for research to be carried out before and throughout the

If a watch and wait approach is suggested, the in home caregiver can help your loved one with any necessary lifestyle modifications. Not only can they be helpful with food and exercise support, but many seniors are grateful for the caregiver's supportive and non-biased ear.

A caregiver’s role is a very serious and sensitive position. Most people who are put in the role unexpectedly have no idea of the road which lies ahead of them. The transition to having to care for another adult can be huge. However, most people do it because they love their family and they would not have it any other way. Before a person becomes a caregiver there are some things that they need to understand about the whole process.

Most adults experience isolation from society, and friend and sometimes even from family. If they are living in home care or nursing home, they don’t go outside as much unless

According to the Center for Disease Control, a disability is any condition or impairment of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities and interact with the world around them. Disability affects 56.7 million or nearly 1 in 5 (18.7%) people in the United States living in communities (www.cdc.com, 2015).

Over the past 15 years I have worked within homecare and residential settings supporting elderly people with disability, Parkinson disease, and dementia, assisting with personal care, medication, house duties and helping them with their welfare. Since 2013, I have worked children and adults with disabilities such as cerebral palsy and epilepsy, Learning disability, self-harm emotional and behaviour issues and addictions . This has been very challenging however rewarding experience. My involvement of planning activities reviewing care plan and assessment for them allowed me to re-evaluate my perception of someone living with disabilities. This also gave me an insight of the daily challenges faced by these individuals, being in the position to be able to assist them in fulfilling life goals and to bring about change in their lives have been inspiring.

A physical disability is any disability that affects the physical function of one or more limbs. Physical disabilities can be either congenital or acquired after birth due to an accident or disease.

Informal carers often comes in the guise of friends, neighbours and relatives who normally provide care on a voluntary basis.

It would appear that there are “Starkly contrasting approaches to disability” (Thomas, 2004, p. 569) over the years which have changed dramatically. There are several models of disability which have been well-defined over the last thirty years. The most often mentioned are the ‘social’ and ‘medical’ models of disability. These two models in particular are usually the first starting point of discussion around the topic of disability. In addition to these two models are many others, for instance, the tragedy and/or charity model, the moral model of disability, the empowering model of disability, the spectrum model of disability (Disabled World, 2015).

A person is defined as disabled when they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial effect on their ability to perform everyday activities. These long term impairments include physical disabilities, mental disabilities, and sensory disabilities. This can mean that they have mobility impairments, learning disabilities, mental illnesses, visual impairments, or hearing impairments. In schools, students with disabilities are called EC students, which stands for Exceptional Children. A person’s disability could be present from birth, or they could occur during the person’s lifetime.

Disability or inability means lack of ability. The functional ability of the person decreases as a result of impairment. For any individual, disability is a situation in which the person finds himself unable or feels an obstruction to complete the work expected of him on the basis of his age, sex or social or cultural background. In other words, disability is resultant obstruction or interruption of impairment in performing a work considered to be within the normal limit of any individual. Disability creates problems in moving, seeing, writing, weight lifting and/or taking interest in routine work. Disability can broadly be