Health
Pause for thought
Friday/May/2008 03:50 PM
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
I work with many people who are influential in the lives of disabled people. Many of them will influence health and social care - either as policy or decision makers, assessors or advisors.
Every UK citizen will also make decisions which affect the lives of disabled and older people. Through our democratic voting - we are choosing who we want to influence our future and the way they will do it.
It is perhaps wise for us all to think that one day, older age or impairment may well creep in. Have we chosen our future wisely or will we regret what we have done or failed to do?
Today I am compared to Stephen Hawkins
Friday/February/2008 07:10 PM
It is good practise, when serving a disabled
customer, NOT to do what my optician did yesterday by
asking how long I had needed a wheelchair and why. I
explained I had MD and he said 'oh yes just like
Stephen Hawkins'. Shame he was totally wrong and was
only comparing our bodies rather than our minds - I
wish!
Disability Equality applies to how you address a disabled person and you can be in breach of the DDA because you wouldn't ask a none disabled person such personal questions that have no significance to providing a service. It brings undue attention to a person's impairment where it isn't needed. I personally find it frustrating and annoying.
Disability Equality applies to how you address a disabled person and you can be in breach of the DDA because you wouldn't ask a none disabled person such personal questions that have no significance to providing a service. It brings undue attention to a person's impairment where it isn't needed. I personally find it frustrating and annoying.
