Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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