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Dementia as a disability: can we learn from disability studies and theory?
- Author:
- BARTLETT Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(5), September 2000, pp.33-36.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reviews literature in the field of disability studies, outlining how certain ideas and approaches to concepts such as empowerment and independence can contribute to the understanding of the range of social barriers faced by people with dementia.
Best value: using the framework to meet the needs of the consumer
- Author:
- BENNETT Shaun
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 5(1), February 2002, pp.4-6.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Supporting People programme will bring about significant changes to the way in which support services are funded and delivered. The Best Value framework provides a key process for achieving the objectives of the Supporting People programme and can underpin the role of service users. A Best Value good practice guide is due to be published shortly by the Housing Corporation, drawing lessons from a number of pilot studies.
Responses of the occupational therapy profession to the perspective of the disability movement, part 1
- Author:
- CRADDOCK Judith
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(1), January 1996, pp.17-24.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Since the 1960s, people with disabilities have been developing their own perspective on what it means to be disabled. Part 1 of this article examines the genesis and development of the disability movement. The ideas and analysis that the disability movement has generated and its critique of the medical model of disability are outlined, and its impact - both ideological and legislative - is reviewed. The changing professional philosophy of occupational therapy is described and the impact on it of changing social values is assessed.
A model of good planning
- Author:
- ROBERTSON Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(3), March 1995, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Describes how a group of disabled people and professionals learned to work and plan together.
Ageing with a disability: what do they expect after all these years
- Authors:
- ZARB Gerry, OLIVER Mike
- Publisher:
- University of Greenwich
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 144p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Findings from a study of people with a disability who are growing older in the United Kingdom. Examines people's personal experiences of ageing and the impact this has on their lives and focuses on the practical implications of ageing with a disability. Outlines a model for creating a supportive environment.
Disabling barriers: enabling environments
- Editor:
- SWAIN John
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 306p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
In addition to analysing the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment, this edition has new chapters on: international issues; diversity among disabled people; sexuality; and bioethics. The primary aim of this volume is to reflect changes over the past ten years since the first edition. Despite major changes in legislation, for instance, the dominant picture remains one of discrimination, prejudice, injustice and poverty, often rationalised on the grounds of supposed progress for disabled people. Part I charts the continuing development of a social approach to understanding disability and impairment that emanates from the lived experience of injustice and the establishment of a collective identity of disabled people. Part II addresses ‘image’ at its broadest – as encompassed by the notion of identity. The disabling barriers analysed in Part III are those that prevent the full participative citizenship of disabled people, that marginalise and segregate people in every aspect of social life, that deny access to and participation in organisations and that preclude equal rights. Part IV turns to the help and support provided for and by disabled people. Disabling barriers here are those faced by disabled people within the service providers’ models. Finally the reader concludes by focusing on possibilities for creating full democratic participation within the context of a rapidly changing social world.
Support and access in sports and leisure provision
- Author:
- DEVAS Magda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper will look at different ways of enabling people with learning difficulties to engage in leisure opportunities: the Support Model and the Access Model. These models will be put in their social context and then critiqued. The support model will be be contextualised in the theory of normalisation, access in disability theory. The support worker role will be shown to be useful in motivating people with learning difficlties into new activities, as well as having a protecting element, and unwittingly, disguise the level of discrimination people with learning difficulties are subject to. The access worker role will be shown to have strengths in understanding discrimination. With this analysis, it has the potential to dismantle disabling practices. However, the needs of people with learning difficulties have ramifications for disability theory. In practice, that means that ideas of self-advocacy need to be taken on board. Through interviews with sports personnel, social workers and people with learning difficulties, the implications of creating fully comprehensive access will be examined. I will conclude that both effective support and comprehensive access must be in place before people with learning difficulties are able to make a meaningful choice as to how they are enabled to participate in sports. It is only at that point of choice that the two models become complementary rather than competing discourses of provision.