disability, data protection, activism and other such
“Unreasonable” residents Being in residential care, we often get labelled as “unreasonable”. We get told it’s “unreasonable” to want the toilet at short notice, “unreasonable” to expect assistance to access the community, “unreasonable” to want to get up at a certain time, etc. etc. Whenever and wherever there’s communal living, and particularly where there’s communal…
Dont Assume things about me just cos I live in Care! Living in a residential home, it’s sometimes difficult to work out quite what “role” I take, particularly in other people’s eyes. There are various technical difficulties with living in a building registered as a “business”. For example, the Council won’t collect bulky rubbish, and…
“Choice” in residential care There’s been a movement towards “choice” in social care over the past couple of decades. This has percolated through to some areas of residential care, such that providers who want to claim they are half-decent at least give the appearance of complying with “choice” – along with the standard others such…