Category Archives: disability
How would you cope? – raising awareness of carers
Just over a quarter of people (26%) would be likely to ask friends for help with washing and eating if they were seriously ill, according to a survey.
A total of 2,059 people were asked to in a YouGov poll to think about how they would feel asking their friends to help them wash and dress themselves, eat and go to the toilet.
Access to disabled man’s house by road workers was denied
Carers denied access to disabled man by road workers
4:02pm Monday 14th November 2011
By Adam Binnie »
The mother of a disabled man has branded workers from Hertfordshire Highways “morons” after his carers were denied access to their home.
Margaret Federico of Rickmansworth Road relies on the help of two carers to look after her son Romualdo who has cerebral palsy.
The real cost of disability!
I wrote this a few years ago, a friend asked me to find it and so I’m posting it here so I don’t lose it again.
I got up this morning, left my bed (£150), and walked down one flight of stairs. Had a shower (£100)and went in to my daughter.
I hoisted (£1000) my daughter out of her her bed (£800) using a sling (£100)into her wheelchair (£2000), then used the overhead hoist in the bathroom (£2000) to put her on the shower bench (£600) to give her a shower.She then sat on the toilet seat (£200). Put her in the lift (£3000) to go down to the sitting room. Most of these costs were borne by social services.
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