disability, data protection, activism and other such
Amongst the various other things that annoyed me about yesterday’s shameful treatment of disabled people courtesy of the Lords (et tu, Lib Dems?) was a vomit-inducing self-congratulatory homily by Lord Low, who spearheaded this (admittedly influential) report on the withdrawal of mobility allowance for people in residential care. Readers may remember that this nasty proposal…
“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…