Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SUPPORTING VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS
- Support
- Definition : supporting is the act of making it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering one's
services or resources.
- Existing types of support
- Peer support: Friends and colleagues can greatly impact and help vulnerable people, for example, a
child might get bullied for having a mental disorder but the friends of the child can stand up for him
- Online groups which may provide additional help, such as
contacts to call and ask help for to make it easier
- Professional help such as nurses for Old people in care homes.
- A physical product that could make daily activities much easier such as remembering
which tablets need to be taken or have already been taken.
- Special educational needs for students with physical or mental disorders is pro vided by the
government in the UK
- There are homeless shelters that provide a meal, a blanket or provide temporary accommodation for
little to no cost
- There are many local support groups to help with arthritis and the NRAS.
- There is therapy available for people with depression and many other forms of support .
- Charitable organisations
- Existing Products that help
- There are hand massagers and gloves spcifically for people with arthirits
- There are antideprsants for people suffering with depression
- There are weighted blankets on the market for people suffering withj Anxiety
- Vulnerability
- Definition: Vulnerability refers to the inability to withstand the effects of a hostile environment. A
window of vulnerability is a time frame within which defensive measures are diminished,
compromised or lacking.
- Examples of vulnerable people
- Pregnant women
- Children
- Elderly people
- Cyclists on road
- women and children very late at night
- Economically disadvantaged people
- Racial and ethnic minorities
- The homeless
- individuals with severe mental illness or
disorders
- dementia
- Autism
- major depression
- Anxiety disorders
- PTSD
- Arthritis
- Parkinson's
disease
- Motor neuron
disease
- Multiple
Sclerosis
- Asylum seekers
- Migrants
- Refugees
- Gypsy Travellers
- Disabled people
- Blindness/visual impairment
- Hearing impairment
- Locomotor disability
- Learning disability