Describe the social model of disability and apply it to one workplace example wh

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Describe the social model of disability and apply it to one workplace example which demonstrates how it benefits people you support.

Describe two negative impacts social devaluation can have on an individual’s life.

Explain why dignity of risk may conflict with an individual’s safety. How can you, as a support worker, follow practice standards and work safety and health requirements, as well as the person you support’s dignity of risk requirement?

How can you identify unmet needs? Provide some examples of unmet needs.

How can practice standards and the code of conduct help you provide support to people with disabilities?

Explanation / Answer

Social model of disability , points out that disability is caused by the way society is organised, rather than by a person’s impairment itself . It looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life choices for disabled people. When barriers are removed, disabled people can be independent and equal in society, with choice and control over their own lives.

The social model of disability says that disability is caused by the way society is organised. The medical model of disability says people are disabled by their impairments or differences.

Under the medical model, these impairments or differences should be ‘fixed’ or changed by medical and other treatments, even when the impairment or difference does not cause pain or illness.

The medical model looks at what is ‘wrong’ with the person and not what the person needs. It creates low expectations and leads to people losing independence, choice and control in their own lives.

Dignity of risk means respecting each individual’s autonomy and self-determination (or “dignity”) to make choices for himself or herself. The individual have the right to make their own choices about their health and care, even if healthcare professionals believe these choices endanger the person’s health or longevity. But sometimes it does put the individual life at risk .

However the health care facilities has to come up with strong policies of –MITIGATION MEASURES .

The clients can be hard to manage with their choices , but we have to accept and respect their choices still we have to come up with the mitigation strategies aftermath of the problem .

Safety of the client and duty of care has to be balanced , which cannot be neglected at any cost.

Clearly printed instructions to the client with all steps if in case of emergency has to be explained .

Safety measures like railings for the wheel chair clients, the dotted marked pathway from the elevator to the train or bus stop in the public transport system , bigger elevators to accommodate the wheel chairs has to be thought and implemented .

At all times the disable client has to be treated with all due respect , privacy and professionalism . code of ethics has to be strongly laid where it cannot be liberated in case of any disable client .

Barriers not necerrarily to be physical , it could be the attitude , prejudice or sterotype ,disable people having not equal opportunity to be a part of society .

Unmet needs of the disable are constantly reviewed and updated,

·         A wheelchair user wants to get into a building with a step at the entrance. A solution could be a ramp would be added to the entrance so that the wheelchair user is free to go into the building immediately.

A teenager with a learning difficulty wants to work towards living independently in their own home but is unsure how to pay the rent. The young person might be expected to live in a communal home.
A child with a visual impairment wants to read the latest best-selling book to chat about with their sighted friends. A full text audio-recording are of the book will help the child to enjoy the newly released book .

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