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K101 Home as a place for care
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K101 Home as a place for care
Housing can present physical barriers for people carrying out everyday activities & caring for others
Home maintenance & improvements often required over time as peoples needs for care & support change
Design & layout of home can make it inaccessible - a disabling environment
Adaptions to home can remove barriers and make it more enabling
Assistive technology may enable more people to maintain autonomy & stay in own homes
Continuing to live at home when possible is good for peoples wellbeing
Impairment - physical, intellectual or medical
Disability - arises out of nature of the environment
Social model of disability - arises out of nature of environment
Medical model - individual limitations create disability
Barriers - environment, attitudinal, structural
- Environment - design & layout of buildings
- Attitudinal - views people without disabilities hold
- Structural- nature of society, laws, entitlements, services
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.
Example - Veronica & David. Stair lift. Accessible shower, toilet & bidet, ramp to garden, electric chair