Disabled Leeds women reveal heartbreaking stories of sexual and physical abuse
The problems facing disabled women in accessing services for abuse victims.
“I was raped when I was just coming up to my 18th birthday and he physically and mentally abused me … it happened not just to me, it happened to three other people.”
Those are the disturbing words of a 48-year-old Leeds woman called Lucy, recounting her time at a college for people with learning difficulties in the 1980s.
When the carer has to be the cared for! Pt 2
Part 2 of my recovery from an operation
written by Carer JJ
Well i am now 6 weeks into my recovery.
i have been discharged by the hospital and can now do light housework though my normal activities are still on hold for another 6 weeks.
So how did we do?
well we limped over the finish line! Poor Susan limped more than us! She has recovered the use of her foot. Thank goodness for eldest daughter Sarah who came home from university for the holidays and helped no end. Sadly Fred used this as an excuse to go back to his usual activities of staying in his chair, sleeping and expecting to be waited on.
Why we must support black carers
Gloucestershire County Council is leading a project to research the needs of the large numbers of BME ‘hidden carers’.
12/04/2015 02:00 PM
SUPPORT NEEDED: Carers see their role as part of their duty and often do not know that help is available for them
THROUGHOUT THE UK there are a lot of people who care, unpaid, for a family member or friend who due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction cannot cope without their support, and provide assistance to them in diverse ways.
Conventional wisdom suggests that most ethnic minority people will care for their loved ones, children and relatives. The reality however is that this unpaid duty can leave carers physically, mentally and emotionally drained to the extent that, the longer they carry out this role without support, the more likely they are in danger of their becoming unwell themselves and isolated.
