K101 Home as a place for care

K101 Home as a place for care

1. Housing can present physical barriers for people carrying out everyday activities & caring for others

2. Home maintenance & improvements often required over time as peoples needs for care & support change

3. Design & layout of home can make it inaccessible - a disabling environment

4. Adaptions to home can remove barriers and make it more enabling

5. Assistive technology may enable more people to maintain autonomy & stay in own homes

6. Continuing to live at home when possible is good for peoples wellbeing

7. Impairment - physical, intellectual or medical

8. Disability - arises out of nature of the environment

9. Social model of disability - arises out of nature of environment

10. Medical model - individual limitations create disability

11. Barriers - environment, attitudinal, structural

    • Environment - design & layout of buildings
    • Attitudinal - views people without disabilities hold
    • Structural- nature of society, laws, entitlements, services

12. Example - Bertie, 82. Adapts home to help support wife who uses wheelchair. Bed downstairs, stair lift, height of tv, bo-fold doors in toilet, slope of driveway, changed height of milk container.

13. Example - Veronica & David. Stair lift. Accessible shower, toilet & bidet, ramp to garden, electric chair