My Sara Jane Gorman I'm a visiting Literature for the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus. Back in February I raised awareness of the benefit cuts to the first year students, I have updated the power point ready to raise awareness of the benefit cuts for last year’s 3rd year students when I go back to work after the summer holiday on September 3rd 2015 at the University of Wolverhampton Walsall campus. It’s down to me to raise this awareness so the students know as Learning Disability nurses what their patience’s could be going through.
Here are the handouts to the Benefit cut awareness power point on this website.
I am aware that nurses are not responsible with what happens in their patient’s life but a lot of things can cause a lot of stress their health such as to do with the benefit cuts.
I understand a lot of services in Britain are under stress with cuts this, that and the other so you will only be able to do what you can do. I also understand that you have to go along with rules of management and laws; I understand there could be things I am teaching you may not be able to put into use. All the same don’t feel my time has been wasted as naturally I hope you don't have to find yourself dealing with patience’s in these serious situations but just in case you are asked by management if you know anything about the benefit cuts at least you will know. I feel all the same it’s my job to prepare you in case what I teach is to be allowed to be necessary. Whenever you get chance to go online just to see if things you have learned are still in date but bear in mind with some sites they can take ages to update them so if have time, it could be best make phones if you need to know if some important things still apply.
http://www.careappointments.co.uk/care-news/wales/item/38025-cssiw-launch-national-inspection-of-learning-disabilities-care-in-wales
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=YYYmVUou9JI&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgHVKfWPftYg%26feature%3Dshare
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Risk of people been forced into things they can’t manage without support.
§ Many people have been forced into situations they cannot cope with without support due to the benefit cuts such as DWP and Altos signing them off fit for work.
§ I’m not saying people with disabilities and health problems can’t work but health, safety and support needs to be taken into account.
§ For example; you may have to write proof to reasons why a person can’t hold down a certain job without the right support.
§ With certain disabilities and health problems there are limits of jobs they can and can’t do, for example someone with Epilepsy; it’s a risk to let them climb ladders.
- With the cuts the government have been making, a lot of people haven't been getting the support they need.
- The benefit cuts are risks of injury and accidents at work if they are not supported.
- Risks of as I said dying of hunger.
- Some people may be stressed through the Anxiety and Depression of services not able to provide the help people need.
- Gps only do so much or only allowance to do so much, which is hard to tell because most people have been weight for example and not been told what their weight is.
- Some people might be underweight and others may be overweight.
- Prices in shops need to be checked when it comes to healthy foods because people can be limited to what they can spend if they are on benefits or and if their job doesn't pay that well.
- Risks of taking their own lives.
- Risks of being in big debt.
- Risks of people been more unwell.
Although this is an old report when we had benefit changes back in 2011, now we are facing benefit changes again with the DLA changing to PIP, which most people could face from this year 2015 to I think 2018.
No one gets told when this change is happening, DWP just sends people a letter out when it suits them.
Each time people's’ benefits change or even get cut it gets more and more stressful for people and the government puts the stress on people who are less likely to cope without support.
Now they are making it hard for people, they can’t have any family support.
I will be honest to say I don’t know anything about whether or not the benefits pay for the carers and or support worker so I don’t know what is what there. It may be an idea for you to look into this because you will never know whether you need to know or not.
People get questions on letter then they have to ring a number up that’s written on the letter.
Then people are sent for an assessment which could be for most people out of their way from where they live and most people may face transport problems.
If a friend or carer comes with them they have to wait in the waiting room, they are not allowed to come in the room with them.
This is something else that can cause a lot of stress on people's’ disabilities and health problems.
There are a lot of changes and cuts to the benefits in Britain.
· The stresses of the changes are too much for people with disabilities and health problems.
· This can make people worry.
· This can make people ill.
· This can even cause death, if it gets far too much for people.
It is so wrong of the government to take money off people who need it most.
No one wishes anyone to be homeless. People with disabilities find it hard to look after ourselves more than other people.
Back in 2011, I had got a letter off the Benefit office about my Incapacity benefit changing to Employment and Support Allowance.
The letter wasn't very clear to read.
DWP should not send out unexpected letters or give people unexpected call, the Job centre staff make people aware of the changes face to face in the Job centre.
We could get a call or and letter any time to tell us our benefits have changed.
Changes may happen to a lot of people in days, months and or years.
For other people changes could happen as soon as tomorrow.
The fact that no one knows when it’s time for their benefits this is what cause people a lot of stress when the unexpected happens.
Information needs to be made clearer.
As the government is trying save as much money as possible the Job centres have to cut or and stop people money whether there’s a reason or but then it happens to some people not others. Nobody knows why they only cut or and stop only certain people's’ money.
What time?
It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call, we need plenty of notice.
We could get a call or and letter any time to tell us our benefits have changed.
It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call.
If people are expected to work, they can't be expected to be sitting at home waiting for the Job Centre to call.
The cuts and changes to the benefits.
There are a lot of changes and cuts to the benefits in Britain.
The stresses of the changes are too much for people with disabilities and health problems.
· This can make people worry.
· This can make people ill.
· This can even cause death, if it gets far too much for people.
It is so wrong of the government to take money off people who need it most.
No one wishes anyone to be homeless. People with disabilities find it hard to look after ourselves more than other people.
Back in 2011, I had got a letter off the Benefit office about my Incapacity benefit changing to Employment and Support Allowance.
The letter wasn't very clear and easy to read.
DWP should not send out unexpected letters or give people unexpected call, the Job centre staff should make people aware of the changes face to face in the Job centre.
We could get a call or and letter any time to tell us our benefits have changed.
Days, months and years need to be made out clearer to when the Job centre wants us in to tell us about the benefit changes.
It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call, we need plenty of notice.
We could get a call or and letter any time to tell us our benefits have changed.
It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call.
If people are expected to work, they can't be expected to be sitting at home waiting for the Job Centre to call.
Benefit Cut awareness update.
This is a message to the Student Learning Disability nurses and trained Learning Disability nurses.
Stress is a risk of a killer for all people not just people with disabilities and health problems.
As you all may be aware since David Cameron has been in power there have been more people with disabilities and health problems lose their benefits than ever before. This may seem strange to hear, the stress people have been having going through has affected peoples’ health as far Anxiety, depression, epilepsy, even such health problems as diabetes, asthma and etc is curtained. Most people have even died. Last year alone Britain lost 10’6000 people with disabilities and health problems. Let’s do our best to prevent this stress for people as much as possible by signing the petition or and sharing the link http://www.change.org/p/3200011?recruiter=85458926&utm_campaign=signature_receipt_fb_dialog&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&fb_ref=Default
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2012/10/04/10600-sick-disabled-people-died-last-year-within-six-weeks-of-their-claim-ending/
http://realmedia.press/welfare-report-1-figures-fakers-and-failures-of-the-dwp/
http://realmedia.press/welfare-report-1-figures-fakers-and-failures-of-the-dwp/
If you work for any service, company, group, organisation to do with learning disability and mental health I would be most grateful if as many of you as possible team up together. This could well be the same for people with disabilities and health problems as well. Many people like me with disabilities and health problems are also Advocates; Learning Disability and Mental Awareness trainers may be people like us could team up together with profession.
We need to be awareness that there are people on benefits who don't have disabilities and health problems who don't like working who should be but it's not in everyone. People who are in that situation are making it hard for those with disabilities and health problems http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefits-mum-cheryl-prudham-baby-5966870?ICID=FB_mirror_main
Stress of benefit cuts.
· People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive to stress than other people due to our disabilities and health problems.
· If people have their benefits cuts they won’t have access to counselling because there will be money to pay for it without benefits.
· People who have their benefits cut are in risk of hunger and or debt.
· People worry about owing money which can push them to end their lives.
· So many people have overdosed.
· Not everyone who has their benefits cut or stopped has a negative ending. ·
· Winning appeals doesn’t necessary they are going to be better off than before they lost their benefits?
· People may worry that they may not have enough money back to pay what they may owe.
· This is where they are in risk of going hungry and homeless.
§ People can’t affront to live when they have lost their benefits for example paying bills, eating, rent, they may end up homeless and or etc.
§ People who have their benefits stopped are in risk of going hungry or and going into debt.
§ People worry about owing people money.
STRESSES ON PEOPLE'S HEALTH.
§ Due to peoples’ health problems Stress push them into taking their own lives if life gets too much for them.
§ Stress can mostly affect those who have such health problems like Anxiety, Depression, Epilepsy, Asthma, diabetes, and etc.
§ Many people have taken overdoses.
§ Many have taken and lost their own lives.
Awareness of learning disabilities and Mental health awareness cuts.
• This is an update of the Benefits cuts awareness presentation.
• Lives of vulnerable peoples matters as much as yours.
• As you know stress is the biggest killer of all but if you are a vulnerable person, you can't cope with it as much as other people.
• What professions need to be aware of is that 10’600 people with disabilities and health problems died last year due to the benefit cuts.
• I was only aware the figures on Sunday 29th March 2015.
§ People are finding it hard to affront living experiences.
§ Many people have lost their lives through eating very little nothing at all.
How long?
• Appeals could take up to a year or two.
• If you have access online a lot please check when you can to see if anything I have made you aware of has change, if to see if anything has been replaced whatever.
• Some people have said that the government have said they are thinking about stopping appeals, it may or may not be true, they may have stopped them now or will be in the future so try to keep up with what’s going on as much as you can.
• Most people take longer.
• Some take longer than others.
The wait depends on.
• Peoples’ issues
• On people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.
The waiting time is a big risk to people's’ health.
• People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive than other people.
• People worry about owing to people and services money.
• These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own lives.
• Most people have taken overdoses.
• Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull through.
• Not all GPs can check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
http://www.gponline.com/health-checks-adults-learning-disability/article/1057174
http://bit.ly/1JAzLH0
• People should have their health checks even more so while going through appeals but there’s not always the funding and time according to the system.
• People are in risk of being more stressed hungry or and going into debt.
• The food banks can only give people so much food.
• A lot of people feel embarrassed by having to have free food.
• Most people live on their own and they have very little support even harder if their benefits are cut or and stopped.
• People are in risk of losing their homes while their benefits are cut or stopped.
• The government has been known to cut and stop people's’ money with or without a reason just to save money.
• Altos and DWP have signed people off fit for work when people haven’t been fit for work and also without support.
• Just to let you know that not all people lose their lives over this.
• As strange it sounds most people lose their lives because the stress is just far too much.
. Anxiety and Depression is more of serious health problems than that what it looks like and the stress of everyday life is to blame for it.
Today.
• Here’s my website address to study the handouts to today’s session or and anything else you may find useful to learn off my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/
• ATOS KILLERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA
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• Please tell me at least three things you have learned to today or email me to feedback.
• Please enjoy any other session you may have today.
• Please have a safe journey home.
• Bye for now.
https://thepoorsideoflife.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/being-made-homeless-the-next-day-the-universal-credit-victims-and-why-do-they-keep-stopping-my-money-amongst-other-happenings-at-the-jobcentre/
Feedback from last year’s first year on the benefit cuts awareness session.
I am a trainee visiting literature so I can learn off the students what they want to learn and how they want me to teach them as much as they learn of me.
I really emphasised with what Sara was saying. I could see that the benefit system doesn’t seem to understand nor care about people with LD.
It was good that Sara highlighted the emotional, physical and psychological problems facing people with LD. It is bad that the Government, who are meant to be looking after the people, have put laws and systems in place that leave people with LD in such distress.
People with LD can experience anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, illness, lose their homes, be without money for long periods of time, due to their benefits being stopped or assessed.
It was good that Sara highlighted the emotional, physical and psychological problems facing people with LD. It is bad that the Government, who are meant to be looking after the people, have put laws and systems in place that leave people with LD in such distress.
People with LD can experience anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, illness, lose their homes, be without money for long periods of time, due to their benefits being stopped or assessed.
People with LD need as much help as possible when it comes to benefits. And as future LD nurses, we will be aware of their plight and in a position to help with applications, as advocates, and with calming their fears.
At this particular moment in time it is all about awareness, understanding, and empathy. If a LD nurse is aware of the issues then we will be in a better position to help people with LD who is in this situation.
Feedback from the session I did for the students a couple of Thursdays ago.
2nd year Student's feedback from the Benefit cuts awareness session Monday 11th May 2015 University Of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus.
Benefit cuts:
· Services cuts / already some services are closed
· Limited / no respite services for families
· Increased crime figures due to cuts?
· Lack of support in the home people are just left to cope alone because of lack of funding
· Mental health problems increasing
· Isolation / decreased socialisation lack of activities
· Increased immobility = health issues
· Government plans to be aware of these so as to help service users
· Community after hospitals closed but there is ever decreasing support available
· Increased likelihood of not getting roles due to CV changes or limited chances
· Job centres not always in line with work areas – availability of posts etc
· Increase in homelessness
· Poverty
· Suitable job – not just any job
· Direct payments = effects on people
· Abuse of the vulnerable
· Increase in protests / strikes?
· Lord Willis Raising the bar report http://hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/321/files/2015/03/2348-Shape-of-caring-review-FINAL.pdf
Feedback on the benefit cuts awareness session from last year’s 3rd year.
I am glad you enjoyed the presentation; my confidence and presentation content those of you who were in my session.
I am glad you have learned how to help people who have had their benefits cut.
Yes this topic is your role when it comes to looking out for your patient’s health.
Sara’s feedback: I am very happy that you’re happy with with my feedback. I have learned as much from the students as they do from me.
Each session I do I will learn better for the next time I do a session? I feel I remembered to explain more what a student job role is this time than I did last time. The role of a learning disability nurse is looking for the health of learning disabilities and health problems. The state of the system with services going through cuts and benefit cut is a huge risk to the health of patients.
The changes that need to be made are that the health needs of people with disabilities and health problems need to be take care of to save lives. People with disabilities and health problems are human just like other people so do their lives matter just like other peoples.
I am glad you have learned about the insight of the benefit cuts and how they affect people with a learning disability.
How the benefit cuts can affect all people.
Sara’s feedback is. This question important question but a hard question really. The amount of people on the benefit system is very high. A lot of people are on there for different reason most reasons are not good enough to be on benefits. For example people who don’t want to work but they just have a lot of children for the government keep them. Even most people are pretending they have disabilities and health problems but they haven’t so they don’t have work. Even those can’t seem to find a job but they have tried for a lot of years yet some have never done a hard day’s work in their lives. The answer to this question is yes and no because people’s reasons are good enough to be on the benefit system in the first place others are not. For someone who can work who doesn’t want to it would be a huge affect for them because they don’t want to work whereas most people who do want to work possibly spend years looking for work.
I am glad you enjoyed the discussion and benefit into people with a learning disability.
Sara’s feedback is how could I improve my session?
Please say a bit more on what you enjoyed my session!
Please read more on the handouts on my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ and give me some feedback on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
I am glad you enjoyed listening to my PowerPoint.
They thought it had an insight about the effects of benefits.
They want to learn more about how the benefit cuts affects people with disabilities and health problems.
Sara’s feedback: please learn more my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ feedback to me sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
There are many sites you can go on that you can learn about what people go through they have their benefits cut or stopped.
The kind of benefits there are, how they are, how much money they pay and the rules people have to go along when being on these benefits.
How it affects people with disabilities and health problems face through the benefit cut pretty like I said on the PowerPoint.
· No money or should I say very little money!
· Worrying what’s going to happen one minute to the next let alone one day or week to the next. (Anxiety). For example worrying about owing money.
· Risk of people taking their own lives. (Depression).
· They don’t like depending on food banks so they can feed themselves plus food banks can only give so much.
· Losing weight.
· Even risk of getting into debt even if for example they paid their bills and buy food.
· Most people may not be able affront to buy healthy food depending the shops by them, whether or not they get support to travel to shop if they only can get healthy food further afield.
· It could also depend whether or not their disabilities and health problems prevent from travelling without support.
· One thing I even forgot to say even on my website is, if their benefits are cut they only get their DLA or PIP once a month which pays for shopping and bills but doesn’t necessary last that long.
· Most benefits may pay for a carer or and support worker others may not. https://www.gov.uk/dla-disability-living-allowance-benefit/overview
· Risk of people going hungry or in debt.
Risk of people being from service to service with no help prevented can be a huge affects on their health with Anxiety and Depression.
Thank you so much for your great feedback I’m so glad you enjoyed listening to my information. I am just so sorry about the limit of time so yes please look at my website to learn more thank so much for taking time to be in my session and I thank you everyone as well for your patient's in yesterday’s class.
The risk can be with most people there doesn’t seem to be very clear information people with disabilities and health to when they have go through when they are going through benefit change. For example: DLA changing to PIP some people have gone through it others haven’t. Most people worry like myself for example when am I going to get this over and done with? Benefit letters don’t seem to be very clear and there’s far too much information in those letters for a lot people with disabilities and health problems to read and understand. Due to the cuts now very few people have carers and support workers plus everyone’s family can be different so there are worries that nothing has been done if people with disabilities and health problems can’t support read and understand the letters, the worry is for some people things can get left alone time before anyone sees the letters.
Here some communication websites https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/information-professionals/communication/communicating-people-learning-disability
Feedback on the benefit cuts awareness session from last year’s 3rd year.
I am glad you enjoyed the presentation; my confidence and presentation content those of you who were in my session.
I am glad you have learned how to help people who have had their benefits cut.
Yes this topic is your role when it comes to looking out for your patient’s health.
Sara’s feedback: I am very happy that you’re happy with with my feedback. I have learned as much from the students as they do from me.
Each session I do I will learn better for the next time I do a session? I feel I remembered to explain more what a student job role is this time than I did last time. The role of a learning disability nurse is looking for the health of learning disabilities and health problems. The state of the system with services going through cuts and benefit cut is a huge risk to the health of patients.
The changes that need to be made are that the health needs of people with disabilities and health problems need to be take care of to save lives. People with disabilities and health problems are human just like other people so do their lives matter just like other peoples.
I am glad you have learned about the insight of the benefit cuts and how they affect people with a learning disability.
How the benefit cuts can affect all people.
Sara’s feedback is. This is an important question but a hard question really. The amount of people on the benefit system is very high. A lot of people are on there for different reason. There some peoples’ reasons that are not good enough reason to be on benefits, which make it hard for people who have good enough reasons to be on benefits. For example people who don’t want to work most of them may have a lot of children excepting the government to pay for them. Even most people are pretending they have disabilities and health problems but they haven’t so they don’t have work. Even those who can’t seem to find a job but they have tried for a lot of years yet some have never done a hard day’s work in their lives. The answer to this question is yes and no because everyone’s reason is different but not everyone’s reason is good enough. Nine times out of ten those who want to work can’t and those who can don’t want but it’s not the case in everyone. This can depend on the proof they have got but the worry is I guess for Learning Disability nurses it could be hard to really know other for those who have really strong proof.
Think about your Person Centered Planning!
Think about how much choice and control that person has.
When it comes to someone working and someone not working you will come across all kinds of cases.
For example people with disabilities and health problems with most people. There could be not that they can’t work but limits of what they can do, how many hours they can do and how much money they can earn, onto of whatever benefit they are on for those who have got their benefits.
Before doing this job you need to be asking your manager because they have to follow certain rules, laws, policies and etc. Whether they are on benefits or not when it comes Person Centered Planning. What means by there are some jobs that some disabilities and health problems stop people from doing but their other jobs that their disabilities and health problems don’t affect. Whatever job they are in for that person’s health and safety it’s important they are support mainly they are put into work that’s not for them for whatever reason, either they can manage the job, their health and safety is in risk both reasons in the case may be. Where you job comes in is if your patient provides you with any proof that they are not getting support in the workplace. If you see any reasons for that person to need support in the workplace due to their disabilities and health problems, it could be for example there are limits of jobs this person can do and the person’s health and safety could be at risk for whatever reason. It should be your right and your job in certain of the patient put something in writing to the workplace if the person’s GP doesn’t do so. You could well be in a position to contact the person’s GP to ask why they may refuse to write the patient proof on this possible important matter.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.
Yes you need to tell your patients the truth but then you wouldn’t like someone telling you what you can and can’t do.
What may these things may be?
· Having a home of our own or sharing with whomever we want to share with.
· Coming off benefits into full time work.
· Going to college or university.
· Going out more in the day and or night when we want to.
I am glad you enjoyed the discussion and benefit into people with a learning disability.
Sara’s feedback is how could I improve my session?
Please say a bit more on what you enjoyed my session!
Please read more on the handouts on my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ and give me some feedback on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
I am glad you enjoyed listening to my PowerPoint.
They thought it had an insight about the effects of benefits.
They want to learn more about how the benefit cuts affects people with disabilities and health problems.
Sara’s feedback: please learn more my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/ feedback to me sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
There are many sites you can go on that you can learn about what people go through they have their benefits cut or stopped.
The kind of benefits there are, how they are, how much money they pay and the rules people have to go along when being on these benefits.
How it affects people with disabilities and health problems face through the benefit cut pretty like I said on the PowerPoint.
· No money or should I say very little money!
· Worrying what’s going to happen one minute to the next let alone one day or week to the next. (Anxiety). For example worrying about owing money.
· Risk of people taking their own lives. (Depression).
· They don’t like depending on food banks so they can feed themselves plus food banks can only give so much.
· Losing weight.
· Even risk of getting into debt even if for example they paid their bills and buy food.
· Most people may not be able affront to buy healthy food depending the shops by them, whether or not they get support to travel to shop if they only can get healthy food further afield.
· It could also depend whether or not their disabilities and health problems prevent from travelling without support.
· One thing I even forgot to say even on my website is, if their benefits are cut they only get their DLA or PIP once a month which pays for shopping and bills but doesn’t necessary last that long.
· Most benefits may pay for a carer or and support worker others may not. https://www.gov.uk/dla-disability-living-allowance-benefit/overview
· Risk of people going hungry or in debt.
Risk of people being from service to service with no help prevented can be a huge affects on their health with Anxiety and Depression.
Thank you so much for your great feedback I’m so glad you enjoyed listening to my information. I am just so sorry about the limit of time so yes please look at my website to learn more thank so much for taking time to be in my session and I thank you everyone as well for your patience’s in yesterday’s class.
The risk can be with most people there doesn’t seem to be very clear information people with disabilities and health to when they have go through when they are going through benefit change. For example: DLA changing to PIP some people have gone through it others haven’t. Most people worry like myself for example when am I going to get this over and done with? Benefit letters don’t seem to be very clear and there’s far too much information in those letters for a lot people with disabilities and health problems to read and understand. Due to the cuts now very few people have carers and support workers plus everyone’s family can be different so there are worries that nothing has been done if people with disabilities and health problems can’t support read and understand the letters, the worry is for some people things can get left alone time before anyone sees the letters.
Here some communication websites https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/information-professionals/communication/communicating-people-learning-disability
PCP Person Centred Planning?
What is Person Centre Planning? Person Centred Planning is giving the same choice and control as what other people get but with the right support, which is not always the case for people with disabilities and health problems. There needs to be a balance between independence and support.
The beginning of this year I asked last year’s second year students to what they want in their lives. Now no one is saying that everyone can get what we want we know life isn’t like that. Everyone knows they can’t have it their way all the time. For people with disabilities and health problems our rights seemed to be over protected compared to other people because of our disabilities and health problems in the minds of society. We can be over protected by such people as families, parents, Support Workers and Carers but with the right support we there should be a way round independence and support as a balance. Now that the cuts have come in a lot it makes it harder for people with disabilities and health problems to live our lives how we want to.
· I think we need to be working a lot around accessible information on this topic like many others, such as a lot easy words and pictures.
· When I was a child I was on very strong tablets as child which made me unaware of what was going on around me.
· There’s been very little understanding from Health professions back in those days going back 30 to 40 years ago even up to 10 to 20 years ago, it’s now got better but we still have long way to go.
· I would have thought pictures would be easier to understand in the terms of a Health profession telling a child what is going to happen to them step by step.
· They maybe lot of medication they can find it hard to take in information.
· Lots of medications can affect a person’s memory.
· There may have problems taking in what they have read if they can read or what someone has said to them.
· It is natural if a person’s awareness is affected by medication by too much medication or a very strong dose.
· The person may need someone there to speak on their behalf but otherwise they should be able to have the capacity to speak for them as much as possible.
· Health Professions should listen to the person more than someone else who may be sitting in the room.
· it’s possible that the person or whoever is in the room may have different view on whatever, which could make the Health profession’s job very hard but that could be depending on the person’s situation, abilities, needs and support.
What is stopping us doing what we want to do?
· Family, parents, carers and some support workers.
· The government and their cuts.
People with disabilities, health problems and the elderly have less choice and control than other people. Not all vulnerable people have the same independence and they don't all have the same support either. Society controls different people's lives in different ways.
How does someone know when to support and when not to?
Different people with disabilities and health problems have different disabilities and health problems so they need their support and independence in different ways. Everyone has weaknesses and strengths whether they have disabilities, health problems, and elderly or not. There are some new skills our disabilities and health problems will allow us to learn but other they won't depends on what disabilities and health problems we have got. Its needs to vary from support to independence by getting the balance between the two.
Person Centered Care.
The word person - centered means the person themselves, their choice, their control and their life but support should be given when it's asked. Many people tend to think that some people don't ask for help when it is needed, yes for most people its true. Very often the reason for that is mainly when it's comes to today's world a lot of services lacking funding due to the point a lot of people give asking for help and they are left to do without the support. Yet more often than not the odd bit they may often could be on things on what they can manage without help.
The idea of Person - Centered care is to see that the person get's the care they need to their choice and control and to balance with the family's thoughts too. A lot vulnerable people have been cared for wrongly in the past and even been neglected. A lot of vulnerable people and even their families have lost have lost a lot of trust and faith in services because they have been badly let down in the past. This could mean hospital's dentists, doctors, employment services, education services or anywhere.
Here's link about Person - Centered care in nursing http://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/health/nursing/the-importance-person-centered-approaches-nursing-care
User friendly is about been friendly towards people with disabilities and health problems. How would you like to be treated and spoken to? People with disabilities and health problems like to be helped when it’s needed. Just because people with disabilities and health problems need help more than others people shouldn’t treat them like babies and small children. Everyone needs help at some time no one should be wrapped in cotton wool to a point they can’t live in the big wide world. Why should people with disabilities and health problems be treated any different to other people just because we need more help than other people?
History of how people with learning disabilities and health problems were treated.
In the past in war times, Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, roughly six years before the war broke out. The German Nazi party passed a law that called for the sterilization of people with 'diseases' that were thought to be hereditary.
Between October 1939 and August 1941 the Aktion T4 euthanasia programme operated in Nazi Germany. It aimed to rid society of those the Third Reich called 'Useless eaters.' It is estimated that between 70,000 and 100,000 disabled people were killed. Most were large-scale killings poison gas - a technique later used extermination of Jews in 'The Final Solution. This included people with learning disabilities, Mental Health, blind and deaf people.
People with disabilities have been classed as mental and physical handicap. The reason why people with disabilities were look upon that way is because no one understood us and we were a dangerous to society. We were treated very difference to non - disabled people but Adolf Hitler was against all races. We were very easy to target mostly by the likes of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in World War 2.
Hitler finally called an end to the T4 programme following pressure from church and public. However, killings continued until the end of the war, often by lethal injection or starvation.
This was because all disabled people were seen as depending on the care of non - disabled people, which was hard work for the likes of Adolf Hitler, he saw people with disabilities as useless. Hitler didn't only hurt people with disabilities, he had a big problem with race full stop. For eg: he didn't like you if you were a Jew or if you were gay.
These day people with disabilities are feeling less useless and less guilty of how our disabilities affect our lives. There's a lot hard work to do yet. There are still people like Hitler about. We are all human beings whatever our race. We are human whether we have a race or not. Whatever kind of person we are we are there by choice or none at all. How people are in their race shouldn't worry you, there is more to everyone than just race. We all know the world is not perfect but let’s have far less Hitler’s now if not at all.
We would like to think things have moved since then but no. There's a bog concern that people who have their benefits cut get force into work they can’t without support by such places like DWP. If you or anyone you know have faced these experiences you are more than welcome to email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com
EXAMPLES OF HOW LIFE WAS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN HISTORY.
Today the hospitals would have been paying a lot out of money for families who have experienced
neglected births. I was born with lack of oxygen to
the brain. This is was what caused me to have autism, epilepsy, dyslexia and may be even dyspraxia, which most things weren't known about. I know I never been badly disabled but I could have done without with what I was born. My Family couldn't claim any more in those day or they didn't know they could. I was born at the Beeches
old Nursing home on the Tettenhall road Wolverhampton; they neglected my Mum when she was having me. It doesn't mean I would have expected any of the money. In those days you had Terry toweling nappies and you were lucky if you had a washing machine, my Mum didn't. My family could have done with the money at that time because I had to wear nappies longer that I should have. It doesn't mean to say that all these unnecessary things have stopped today. We would like to see that families and carers of people with disabilities get more support in everything that what we did.
neglected births. I was born with lack of oxygen to
the brain. This is was what caused me to have autism, epilepsy, dyslexia and may be even dyspraxia, which most things weren't known about. I know I never been badly disabled but I could have done without with what I was born. My Family couldn't claim any more in those day or they didn't know they could. I was born at the Beeches
old Nursing home on the Tettenhall road Wolverhampton; they neglected my Mum when she was having me. It doesn't mean I would have expected any of the money. In those days you had Terry toweling nappies and you were lucky if you had a washing machine, my Mum didn't. My family could have done with the money at that time because I had to wear nappies longer that I should have. It doesn't mean to say that all these unnecessary things have stopped today. We would like to see that families and carers of people with disabilities get more support in everything that what we did.
I know I keep saying that it's about time people with disabilities started training and educating non - disabled people mostly to learn to understand is as human beings. Non - disabled people need to learn that we try very hard to learn from our mistakes. Understanding us would be a big help to create a better future from having to learn from a very dark past now it's the 21st century.
All my family had extra hard work with me due to my disability, support was very little or not at all.
I think it took years to diagnosis my disability, now I don't think even now we are really sure whether I have autism or not. We know I have a disability of some sort for sure. Who knows if we have been told the truth or not? We know for sure that I have epilepsy because I had it in the past and it came back.
As for being hyperactive little did we know that too much sugar and may be even too much salt can cause some people be hyperactive mainly children, even now that we have been told more things, who really knows for sure?
Please drop me an email if you have any views or need any support the kind of subject I have just written about now. My email address is for all subjects to do with disabilities on this website. sarajgorman@gmail.com
All my family had extra hard work with me due to my disability, support was very little or not at all.
I think it took years to diagnosis my disability, now I don't think even now we are really sure whether I have autism or not. We know I have a disability of some sort for sure. Who knows if we have been told the truth or not? We know for sure that I have epilepsy because I had it in the past and it came back.
As for being hyperactive little did we know that too much sugar and may be even too much salt can cause some people be hyperactive mainly children, even now that we have been told more things, who really knows for sure?
Please drop me an email if you have any views or need any support the kind of subject I have just written about now. My email address is for all subjects to do with disabilities on this website. sarajgorman@gmail.com
We are hard work for society.
· We are a danger to society.
· We cost society too much.
· We are to blame for our disabilities and health problems as far as society is concern.
· We are made to feel guilty and ashamed to have been born in the first place.
· We are only human just like you are so how can society make people with disabilities and disabilities and health problems feel life is worth living?
· No wonder the rate of Anxiety and Depression is high.
· What can society learn from the dark past to create a bright future?
· How much has got better?
· How much has got worse?
· What’s good?
· What’s bad?
· What isn’t good enough?
History of learning disability and health problems.
· http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/content/assets/pdf/publications/starting-today-background-paper-1.pdf
· search.tb.ask.com/search/GGmain.jhtml?searchfor=history%2C+present+and+future+of+learning+disabilities+and+health+problems.&st=tab&ptb=EAC85840-C98E-43C2-BF3C-
B3E438262E87&n=781aa443&ind=2015011907&ct=SS&pg=
One straight answer to one question.
Services need to let all their staff know of any changes in rules not only for people with disabilities and health problems but for everyone for example; can you support to fill my benefit form please, it needs to be posted for Monday? The answer shouldn't be yes and no off different people someone should know sure, it should be yes or no not two answers to one question one answer to one question.
Communication website
http://www.specialeducationalneeds.co.uk/makaton.html
Transport information. Some people have no sense of direction mainly those people with Dyslexia, Anxiety and Depression. A map that stands out with different colours would be rather useful for most people whereas others it could be 123, ABC or and bullet points for example.
· Turn left.
· Turn right.
· Straight on.
Some people may want that format in colours for example.
· Turn left
· Turn right
· Straight on
Person centred planning.
https://www.mencap.org.uk/our-services/personal-support-services/advocacy/empower-me
Today’s health care for people with learning disabilities and health problems.
Teaching programme
Paper Aeroplane.
Instructions were easy to follow.
For example someone like me with Dyspraxia may have problems with get the paper straight and equal.
This task is an example of teaching all kinds of things such as wiring plug, putting and light bulb, they may have followed your instructions correctly their hands like mine may not be strong enough for example to be able to connect the wires safe and secure into the plug.
A duvet on a bed cover might not be put into the condors tight enough.
A lot of equipment has changed compared to years ago, kettles now turn off on their own but they never used, it used to seem as if the kettle was never going to stop boiling.
I was at least fourteen until I made my Mum a hot cup of coffee.
Microwaves are easier and safer than cookers for people like me to use but then food doesn't stay hot for long.
Those who need a lot of support to cook fresh food can’t always get that support to do so. Now that a lot of care and support services need to be paid for not everyone has enough on their benefits to pay for it.
Clear pictures and easy words could be another easy way for a person to follow instructions to learn do things step by step but they may need support to do and complete the task. For other people they may need support to read the instructions but they may do and complete the task fine so therefore you won’t find everyone has the same strengths and weakness. http://www.housingcare.org/service/type-12-aids-equipment.aspx
https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/factsheets/53
http://www.focusondisability.org.uk/links-1.html
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Making and getting phone calls.
Mainly when making an important call you can always get to speak someone right away. Nine times out of ten you get the answer and the person can talk too fast you. Please leave a message after the tone that is all well and good but not always when something is important, which can depend when that person can reply to your message in the first place. It can work the same with emails and texts. I find they talk too fast when they say press this number for that and that number for this.
Without discriminating not many people with disabilities and health problems can understand foreign languages, mainly those of us who have problems with our speech which can make it hard for us to learn foreign languages. This can be very hard if we have made a call to a service and even harder if we get a call that we don’t except.
Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Memory problems.
· What causes memory problems?
· Dyslexia
· Dyspraxia
· Dimension
· Side effects from most medications
· Epilepsy
How can you support memory problems?
Accessible information (Easy ready).
Forms of communication.
· Give enough time to listen to your patient mainly if they haven’t bought anyone with them for support.
· Mackinton
· Pecks
· Sign language
· Flash cards
· Brail
· Touch
· Body language
· Eye pointing
· Tap pack
· IT Communication
· Lip reading
· Face expression happy face, sad face or and OK face.
Behavior
· Symbol time table
· Thumps up
· Thumps down
· Life stories and pictures
· written communication
· Play studies
· ABC boards
· Talking
· Short form of communication
· Health Passport
· Verbal
· Nonverbal
· Visual
· Non-visual
· · Sing-along for people with Autism
· ·
· · Talking mats
· · Widget
· · Symbol world
· · Clear For All
What disabilities and health problems would you use those forms of communication for?
We need to make sure the patient understands all the information, the information needs to be accessible.
· Easy Read
· Clear written/audio information
· No Jargon!
Your feedback and my feedback to the session.
Feedback from Colleagues. Sara supported the students first session on this module. She helped them to appreciate the importance of communication. She led this part of the session. She also assisted me with the remainder of the session introducing her and helping the students to do the same.
Feedback from students. The students greatly appreciate the time they have with Sara. They enjoy her contributions to the class and learning situation.
Sara’s feedback. I and my colleague Lynne set up the power point for the students to get to know one another plus we jointed in ourselves too. For example
· Who are you?
· What are your likes?
· What are your dislikes?
The students answered the questions on the Power point by drawing pictures.
I explained to the students what the PCP Person Centred Planning is, which is choice and control, the balance between indepence and support.
I asked the students about the forms of communication people with disabilities and health problems use for example Mackinton.
I asked the students to find out about what disabilities and health problems can cause Memory problems? Such as Dyslexia, Dementia and even side effects of most medications.
We even spoke just a bit about (Accessible information) (Easy read.)
There are no changes to be made.
Sara’s feedback to the students.
Evidence of planning.
My feedback the first year students University Of Wolverhampton Walsall.
I hope to be doing some work with the students on Person Centered Planning in the future.
Although there seems be a lot of things that we find hard, there are some things that get better through our lives. I still remember as a child finding it hard for a lot years cutting meat up with a knife and fork. In some cases, if someone is on some medications the side effects can make life even harder for them. If you have a lot of problems with hands, some medications can make than worse, which make some people shake. Not everyone finds the same things hard and not everyone finds the same things easy. I even find with some things I just have good days and bad. Strangely in some things there are some weaknesses that can turn into confidences because with this being a life time disability you become used to what you can and can't cope. The fact that we are keen, willing people because we find so many things hard we don't give up until we achieve what we want to. Sometimes though society gives up on us. To start with it may seem hard to believe that there are positives in Dyspraxia but it's takes a long time to believe in that, your disability and most of all yourself. You can find so many things hard yet it's to believe the bad as well as the good because you don't appear to strangers to have disabilities.
In the first quarter of 2015/16 the number of ESA appeals lodged was 13,502. But in the same quarter 14,751 PIP appeals were lodged, making PIP the most appealed benefit for the first time.
Here are four things you should know about consuming alcohol if you have epilepsy:
When you should worry
4 things you need to know
My feedback the first year students University Of Wolverhampton Walsall.
I hope to be doing some work with the students on Person Centered Planning in the future.
Well done to you all for what you have done but your next stage is to study different disabilities and health problems and to how these people communicate with other people.
Different types of Disabilities and health problem worldwide.
When I say learning disabilities and health problems worldwide I mean all walks of life.
At the moment I am working on a study of disabilities, health problems, illnesses and conditions for life. To be truthful there are so many disabilities, health problems, illnesses and conditions that are hard to know what is what. There are so many questions that need answering like what disabilities, health problems, illnesses and condition, how they start? Before, during or after birth and whether they last for life or now.
As far as we are aware in today's world there's at least 1 in 5 people just suffer from 1 learning disability, which may not seem a lot to go by but believe me it is so there's still a lot an awareness to raise.
The general population only have to have a cold for a about a week or two which does seem like a lifetime but then it goes, which is a huge difference to those of us who have lifetime disabilities, health problems, illnesses and conditions. There's even a huge difference between have them from birth to someone having them sometime or halfway through life. We live in hope it will never happen to you but never say never and a huge difference to your life if it ever does.
People with disabilities and health problems have to live with these barriers.
- Poor health care.
- Having to depend on benefits for the cost of our health care.
- No access to health insurance.
- Less access to adequate health care.
There are many types of disabilities.
- Vision, sight, seeing and blind.
- Thinking, mind, remembering and memory.
- Hearing, hard of hearing and deaf.
- Movement Dyspraxia.
- Communicating, socialising and Autism.
ADHD AND ADD.
There still needs to be more awareness of ADHD and ADD because it is one of the most misunderstood disability and health. This is because it can mainly cause the person to have behaviour problems that can get them understood for been rude, bad mannered, nasty and etc but as children they need to learn right from wrong as much as anyone, only that they may take longer to learn right from wrong compared to other people, which can become embarrassing for them and others around them because they not always aware of what they are doing wrong and why it’s wrong when they do understand it’s wrong. That doesn’t mean they should be treated any special to others but it means that certain things don’t mean to appear as they do.
There are two types of Hyperactivity in people ADHD stands for Attention Deflect/ Hyperactivity. ADD stands for Attention Deflect Disorder. What is the difference between the two? ADHD is twice likely more in boys than girls.
Most common symptoms of ADHD.
· Impulsiveness thinks of consequences.
· Jumping from one activity to another. ( Bad concentration)
· Interrupting when people are talking.
· Finding hard it to keep still.
· Inattention easy distasted, zooming out, unfinished work or no work at all, finding it hard to do things a certain length of time and find it hard to listen to people they really say.
· They could be on the same task or job all day.
· They may not be able to complete things to the speed others want them to.
· They have either too much energy or no energy at all.
· If someone suffers from ADHD or ADD teachers, tutors and employers need be aware to what is to be except in able to give the right support.
Introduction to eating disorders.
One important awareness I must raise is eating disorders because if you find yourself treating patients who have had their money cut or and stopped as I have said they are in risk of either not eating or ending up going into debt. The ones who are in risk of not eating or even not even eating enough is a big worry. This is where health checks more often are necessary because they could be in risks of such eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa, which is an underweight eating Disorder. Bulimia Nervosa is an overweight Eating Disorder, which is just as serious. Some people may even be in risk of going from one eating Disorder to the other, mainly if they have had their benefits cut or stopped and they are not able to eat at all. Although there are food banks that can't give enough health checks still need to be done more often than normal. Please study this link to learn more about Eating Disorders.
There could be all kinds of reasons why a lot of people with disabilities and health problems could find it hard to access food and exercise in a healthy way. A lot of it comes down to cost and support these days with the cuts and not all benefits pay enough for people have their needs met even though the government says the benefits are for that purpose but shocking how fast money goes for most people by the time they have paid bills and that. Just to make it clear that some people may be luckier than others in different ways but in today's world in Britain as a whole the government is not making easy for to access their lives and it's the most vulnerable and poor people it's hitting most.
For some people there may not be any healthy foods they like. In most shops they can make the healthy food more costly than the unhealthy food. Most shops that sell healthy food at a less costly price could be too further afield for most people with disabilities and health problems to travel, some people may have transport problems in different ways, which could make it hard for them in different ways but it's not necessary a problem for everyone as some people can travel more independent than others. Some may need more support than others. For a lot of people it could be more a problems for those who have had their benefits cut or and stopped.
Although there certain disability aids to support people to do things like cooking yet again most disability aids can be rather costly for most people, which can be a problem for most people if they can't get support as much as they used to or not at all.
Some people may suffer from Food Allergies which I don't know anything about because lucky I don't face them but all the same here's a link you could from http://www.disabled-world.com/health/intolerance-allergies/
Learn about Diabetes, which I need to be learning myself about because I don’t have the condition but I do know that people have to wait their diet. There’s two types of Diabetes type 1 and 2, I think 1 is sugar Diabetes and the other is non sugar Diabetes and their weight I think needs to be kept an eye 1 way or the other either under or over weight, which either one could be type 1 or type 2.
Type 2 Diabetes.
Type 2 Diabetes normally happens before the age of 40.
It can be treated by injections.
The person needs a healthy diet.
The person will need the toilet a lot.
The person will be tired a lot.
The person won’t see well.
Again for health and safety reasons always check with the person to see how they would find information to read.
What is Diabetes?
Our bodies have different parts to keep us healthy.
Food and drink go to our stomach to give us energy.
There’s a part in our body called the Pancreas, this helps the food be more useful to our bodies. The Pancreas also makes insulin that help balance the sugar from our food in the body and blood.
Introduction to Cerebral Palsy.
Cerebral palsy is a condition that affects the brain and nervous system.
It is caused by damage to the brain.
The damage to the brain generally happens during or soon after a baby is born.
1 in 400 children are affected by cerebral palsy.
There are many different symptoms of cerebral palsy.
The symptoms become clear in the first 3 years of a child’s life.
Some of the symptoms are:
· slow development, like learning to crawl, walk or speak
· epilepsy
· learning difficulties
· incontinence
· visual impairment
· hearing impairment
· curved spine
· difficulties in speaking
Cerebral palsy is spotted when you are a child.
If you have a child with the symptoms of cerebral palsy the doctor will ask you about their development.
The doctor will also look at how your child moves.
Other test might be needed to find out if your child has cerebral palsy.
The tests are:
· blood tests
· brain tests called an MRI scan and CT scan
Most cases of cerebral palsy cannot be prevented.
If you are pregnant you can do things to stop birth problems occurring.
These are:
· going to all your medical checkups during pregnancy
· avoid drinking alcohol
· avoid smoking
· take regular exercise and eat a healthy diet
· make sure your vaccinations are up to date
An individual care plan will be set up for a child that has cerebral palsy.
The plan will be looked at when the child gets older.
If the needs of the child changes.
The child will be given a key worker. A key worker is a person that arranges the support services for the child.
There is a wide range of treatment for cerebral palsy.
Some of the treatment includes:
· speech and language therapy
· help for muscle problems, this is called physiotherapy.
· help to move around and do daily tasks, this is called
· occupational therapy
· tablets that relax the muscles
Introduction to Dyspraxia.
This the 2nd time I have updated Dyspraxia report that I wrote back In August 2012, yes I know this doesn't have anything to do with benefit cuts and appeals guys but I thought this will help you towards other areas of your students and work. Without bragging I started writing this website back in 2007 and this report has had the highest amount of viewers round 51 or more so hopefully what you learn here will help you a lot. I have copped it on here so you won't have far to find.
Dyspraxia is more of a learning difficulty than a learning disability and it's very hard for people with Dyspraxia to proof to others we have Dyspraxia because it's hidden pyscial disability in fact learning difficulty. Dyspraxia is a learning difficulty with movement. Dyspraxia is much a hidden learning difficulty where the person can walk and talk just like other people but they could have a very mild speech problem.
It can be cause from a very mild brain damage at the birth but there could be other causes to Dyspraxia too. It depends which side of the brain is mildly damage the left or right, it will make a person’s one side of the body weaker than the other.
I can only speak for myself but I have no idea whether or not would be possible for Dyspraxia affect both side of the body but if both sides of the both are affected I guess it is possible. For me my right arm and hand is stronger than my left but I have found medications have made me weaker and shaky.
Dyspraxia can be linked to other disabilities such as Autism Spectrum, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyscalculia.
There’s not much difference between Dyspraxia and Dyslexia. Dyslexia is classed as a mental learning disability whereas Dyspraxia is classed as physical and mental. People with Dyspraxia can face reading, writing and maths difficulties and disabilities but that doesn't necessary mean they can do reading, writing and maths, they just see things the wrong way round even miss things out. Dyscalculia is a maths disability.
On the physical side with Dyspraxia people can have problems with.
Dyspraxia isn't new a learning difficulty but it's it is new as far awareness is curtained so please learn more online about Dyspraxia. Dyspraxia has always been misunderstood because of it been a very hidden learning difficulty therefore such people born before 21st century wouldn't have got the support they should have had, in fact by a guess Dyspraxia awareness have been only going on about ten years. People before about ten years ago wouldn't have been diagnosed because no one knew about Dyslexia. For example it may be possible that I may have been born with Dyspraxia nearly forty - six years ago because I have always had grip and motor skills problems but I could have had mixed of plenty of people in my life who faced the same problems but not known and the same for them with me. As child, teenager and young adult I felt useless, helpless and clumsy and never understood why I was like I was and others thought of me the same, which didn't make me feel very confident about myself. Now I know awareness is starting I am feeling less alone and more confident so let's learn more and raise more awareness so others start to feel more confident about them!
More about Dyspraxia.
Dyspraxia is a hard disability and mental problem to explain and understand.
Many people have already lived
with Dyspraxia our lives being misunderstood and being told that we are a danger to society. The world understands that the world can know everything right away. No one is blaming anyone but if Dyspraxia was understood many years, we may have had the right support and may not have been classed health hazards and useless people. This disability has caused us to be made to feel guilty for things we can't help and also caused us be hated by the world. We understand it's understandable in one way for the health and safety of others but not the fault on purpose of the people who have the disabilities. The awareness is good but all very well to raise when there's not the money in the world to support it. One thing is raising understanding of Dyspraxia so we can be at least understood for what our disability is about.
Many people have already lived
with Dyspraxia our lives being misunderstood and being told that we are a danger to society. The world understands that the world can know everything right away. No one is blaming anyone but if Dyspraxia was understood many years, we may have had the right support and may not have been classed health hazards and useless people. This disability has caused us to be made to feel guilty for things we can't help and also caused us be hated by the world. We understand it's understandable in one way for the health and safety of others but not the fault on purpose of the people who have the disabilities. The awareness is good but all very well to raise when there's not the money in the world to support it. One thing is raising understanding of Dyspraxia so we can be at least understood for what our disability is about.
Dyspraxia is when people are unaware of the world around them. It's too easy to not look where you’re going, bang into things and people around you. People with Dyspraxia can find physical and mental skills hard. Dyspraxia is mostly misunderstood as been a danger to society, which you are but with the right support you can get by in life.
The reason for Dyspraxia being misunderstood is because it's a hidden disability. Yet with Dyspraxia being a lot to do with the body and brain, even though it's hidden because people can walk and talk it's more major than those disabilities that need 24 hour care in everything. Advantage is that people with Dyspraxia have the ability though to ask for help if we need it. There's just a wide circle of skills we find hard. The cause of being misunderstood is the fact we can walk and talk so people think we can manage our lives the same as them. Dyspraxia is a Motor skills and co -orations disability but it is also can be a reading and writing disability not much different to dyslexic a.
The reason for Dyspraxia being misunderstood is because it's a hidden disability. Yet with Dyspraxia being a lot to do with the body and brain, even though it's hidden because people can walk and talk it's more major than those disabilities that need 24 hour care in everything. Advantage is that people with Dyspraxia have the ability though to ask for help if we need it. There's just a wide circle of skills we find hard. The cause of being misunderstood is the fact we can walk and talk so people think we can manage our lives the same as them. Dyspraxia is a Motor skills and co -orations disability but it is also can be a reading and writing disability not much different to dyslexic a.
For eg; a baby may find it hard to roll over, take longer to stand up and balance, walking, climbing, slower to talk and be understood.
Exercise may be harder to access, some people may only manage swimming, exercise or and even horse riding. Some people may not manage to ride a real bike. Some people may find it hard to hop, jump, run fast and even skip. Some people may find it hard to throw and catch a ball. Some people may find it hard to stand for a long time.
Children may be slower to walk up and down stairs safety without support. There are some stairs even adults and teenagers may not be able to manage without support. Some stairs can be harder for some people to manage than others. Some people find it hard to dress, tie shoe laces and etc.
For most of us it can affect our lives with not being able to drive a car and not being able to have children because of carrying and lifting. As time goes on support get's better in some ways but not in others. On the other hands with the cuts the government is making it's hard to say what the future is.
Children may be slower to walk up and down stairs safety without support. There are some stairs even adults and teenagers may not be able to manage without support. Some stairs can be harder for some people to manage than others. Some people find it hard to dress, tie shoe laces and etc.
For most of us it can affect our lives with not being able to drive a car and not being able to have children because of carrying and lifting. As time goes on support get's better in some ways but not in others. On the other hands with the cuts the government is making it's hard to say what the future is.
Other examples
· Doing jigsaws
· Gripping pencils
· Playing games
· Mixing with people
· communicating
· Reading
· Writing
· Emotional problems
· Poor short term memory
· Using a knife and fork
· Carrying hot drinks in the left hand or and you may be only able to carry one hot drink at a time.
· Personnel care for eg; cleaning teeth, washing hair, shaving, cutting toe nails and etc.
· Emptying the hover and putting it back together again.
· Finding it hard to understand people and make friends.
· Poor vision
· Sensitive to light
· Sensitive to nose
· Sensitive to touch
· Sensitive to taste
· Lack of awareness in body positive, space and spatial relationships.
· Hard to take in information.
· Hard to keep tidy.
· Cooking for eg; carrying heavy joints out of the oven, chopping up and straining veg.
· Hard to learn sounds, movements and proof reading.
· Hard to concentrate on too many things at once.
· Slow to do a job and finish it.
· Day dream be in a world of our own.
· Find hard to listen people in groups and take in what they say.
· Finding hard to understand people and be understood by them.
· Change can take a while to get use to whether it's good or bad.
· Good and bad days for eg; something we managed great yesterday we are coping really badly today.
DIAGNOSIS OF DYSPRAXIA
Assessments for dyspraxia typically require a developmental history, detailing ages at which significant developmental milestones, such as crawling and walking, occurred. Motor skills screening includes activities designed to indicate dyspraxia, including balancing, physical sequencing, touch sensitivity, and variations on walking activities. There are six main areas of difficulty which can be profiled within dyspraxia; the four main areas are listed below:
Speech and language
• Difficulties controlling the speech organs.
• Difficulties making speech sounds
• Difficulty sequencing sounds
• Difficulty controlling breathing and phonation
• Slow language development
• Difficulty with feeding.
• Difficulties making speech sounds
• Difficulty sequencing sounds
• Difficulty controlling breathing and phonation
• Slow language development
• Difficulty with feeding.
Fine motor control
• Problems with handwriting, which may be due to either ideational or video-motor difficulties
• Learning basic movement patterns in writing
• Establishing the correct pencil grip
• Hand aching while writing.
• Learning basic movement patterns in writing
• Establishing the correct pencil grip
• Hand aching while writing.
Whole body movement, coordination, and body image
• Issues with walking, running, climbing and jumping
• Poor timing• Poor balance
• Difficulty combining movements into a controlled sequence.
• Difficulty remembering the next movement in a sequence.
• Poor timing• Poor balance
• Difficulty combining movements into a controlled sequence.
• Difficulty remembering the next movement in a sequence.
· Physical play
• Physical play
• Mistiming when catching
• Difficulty in using scissors
• Problems with dressing and feeding.
• Mistiming when catching
• Difficulty in using scissors
• Problems with dressing and feeding.
· Some skills we just never manage but others we manage for life.
· We may get frustrated and angry easy.
· We just might give up if people give up on us too easy.
· We may be stressed and anxious easy.
· We may feel low in our self esteem.
· We may get upset easy.
Other awareness’s of the disability.
Some people with Dyspraxia have flat feet but I also have wide feet. I have really bad problems getting shoes to fit me. Some people even find it hard to type and grip the mouse on a computer. My problem can be I type so fast I don't notice my spelling mistakes and the words I have missed out of sentences. Some people find it hard to plan things. Some of us have poor relocating cannot look quickly and effectively from one object to other, looking from the television to magazine.
Although there seems be a lot of things that we find hard, there are some things that get better through our lives. I still remember as a child finding it hard for a lot years cutting meat up with a knife and fork. In some cases, if someone is on some medications the side effects can make life even harder for them. If you have a lot of problems with hands, some medications can make than worse, which make some people shake. Not everyone finds the same things hard and not everyone finds the same things easy. I even find with some things I just have good days and bad. Strangely in some things there are some weaknesses that can turn into confidences because with this being a life time disability you become used to what you can and can't cope. The fact that we are keen, willing people because we find so many things hard we don't give up until we achieve what we want to. Sometimes though society gives up on us. To start with it may seem hard to believe that there are positives in Dyspraxia but it's takes a long time to believe in that, your disability and most of all yourself. You can find so many things hard yet it's to believe the bad as well as the good because you don't appear to strangers to have disabilities.
Our lives aren't all black and white there are positives about us yet some are from the things we do find hard.
· Some things that we may see different to other people can be right.
· We find it easy to get along with people if they understand us and we understand them.
· People need to give themselves time and us time to get to know one another.
· We can be carrying people who need support as much or if not more than us.
· We have powerful and creative imagination in our day dreams.
· We are very keen learners despite of finding learning hard, nothing stops us.
· We have good long term memories.
· We can create for eg; creative writing art painting and drawing.
Dyslexia is hidden a physical disability.
The causes of Dyspraxia.
As far as I know Dyspraxia is cause by lack of orgxen to the brain at birth or when a baby is born too early. I think this can be linked to epilepsy or and a stroke. I think are many other causes of Dyspraxia.Different forms of Dyspraxia.
It sounds as if the world has a lot to learn about Dyspraxia, which is hardly surprising as it's a hard disability to understand and explain. Just because I am Dyspraxia, doesn't mean I know everything about it. In my respects the world knows more than me. What I do know is how it has affected my life. I am glad to say now it has opened up now. There may have been thousands of children in my school, I would have been aware but I doubt it. I know what it's like to feel so alone even though you are more than likely not. Bullying never seems to stop because you look and or seem different to other children. Even by adults you’re so misunderstood because quite rightly even adult expects to see a normal child, whatever normal is at the end of the day. Putting yourself in the shoes of parents, life can be a jigsaw puzzle for them when their child is slow at learning or and they know what their disabilities and health problems are.
Movements are to do with Motor skills, Co-orations and balance. For eg; opening a tin with a can opener.
Language is speech how we sound, make ourselves understood and misunderstood mostly the cases are.
Perception is Understanding and or misunderstanding others, messages, world around us and etc.
It's more likely possible to have all of those forms of Dyspraxia as I have found all those things hard through my life. Having said that when you have a good many other disabilities it can be hard to say what causes what. For eg; I could either Asperger Syndrome or and ADHD, Dyslexia, Epilepsy as well as Dyspraxia. It could have been one form of Dyspraxia, two or all three. I know what I read about Dyspraxia sounds like me.
Sometimes when I am speaking I find it hard to sallow when I speak therefore no understands me. I have always had problems with my tongue, teeth and lips which goes very dry as skin becomes loose. Even though I feed myself, I'm still very messy eater. As a very small child I found very hard grip a knife and fork I think food used to go everywhere other than my mouth over the floor everywhere, although I don't see how I've always loved my food too much and ate too much.
Some words I may say may not come out correct but may not be far off, otherwise I'm well misunderstood. Sometimes I may talk too quiet in case I don't sound like how I want to sound like. Yet when I am sure of myself it works opposite I can be too loud.
It sounds as if the world has a lot to learn about Dyspraxia, which is hardly surprising as it's a hard disability to understand and explain. Just because I am Dyspraxia, doesn't mean I know everything about it. In my respects the world knows more than me. What I do know is how it has affected my life. I am glad to say now it has opened up now. There may have been thousands of children in my school, I would have been aware but I doubt it. I know what it's like to feel so alone even though you are more than likely not. Bullying never seems to stop because you look and or seem different to other children. Even by adults you’re so misunderstood because quite rightly even adult expects to see a normal child, whatever normal is at the end of the day. Putting yourself in the shoes of parents, life can be a jigsaw puzzle for them when their child is slow at learning or and they know what their disabilities and health problems are.
Movements are to do with Motor skills, Co-orations and balance. For eg; opening a tin with a can opener.
Language is speech how we sound, make ourselves understood and misunderstood mostly the cases are.
Perception is Understanding and or misunderstanding others, messages, world around us and etc.
It's more likely possible to have all of those forms of Dyspraxia as I have found all those things hard through my life. Having said that when you have a good many other disabilities it can be hard to say what causes what. For eg; I could either Asperger Syndrome or and ADHD, Dyslexia, Epilepsy as well as Dyspraxia. It could have been one form of Dyspraxia, two or all three. I know what I read about Dyspraxia sounds like me.
Sometimes when I am speaking I find it hard to sallow when I speak therefore no understands me. I have always had problems with my tongue, teeth and lips which goes very dry as skin becomes loose. Even though I feed myself, I'm still very messy eater. As a very small child I found very hard grip a knife and fork I think food used to go everywhere other than my mouth over the floor everywhere, although I don't see how I've always loved my food too much and ate too much.
Some words I may say may not come out correct but may not be far off, otherwise I'm well misunderstood. Sometimes I may talk too quiet in case I don't sound like how I want to sound like. Yet when I am sure of myself it works opposite I can be too loud.
Some famous people with Dyspraxia.
Daniel Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter, David Bailey who takes pictures, Florence Welch, Hannah McDonnell actor, Helen Burns character out of Jane Eyre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge poet, CK Chester, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and George Orwell writer.
Daniel Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter, David Bailey who takes pictures, Florence Welch, Hannah McDonnell actor, Helen Burns character out of Jane Eyre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge poet, CK Chester, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and George Orwell writer.
Introduction of Autism.
What is Autism?
Autism is a long life disability that affects different people in different ways mainly when it comes to communication. Most people with Autism find the world an even bigger place than what it really is, mainly when there’s a lot of people and a lot of busy places; this is when Autism can link to Anxiety.
Socializing, communicating and joining in with people.
A lot of people with Autism find it hard to cope with facial expression, jokes, sarcasm like break a leg, common phases cool which may mean good to you but cold to them.
It’s possible I may have lived with Autism for nearly forty-six years since birth but not been diagnosed. Whatever my disabilities and health problems are they have made me the person I am today. A lot of these things I am going to write about I have faced and overcome, others I have never faced and hopefully never will.
The disabilities and health problems I have I face for life like it is for Autism.
I am going to write down the signs and symptoms of Autism. Just because a person may not face all of them that doesn't mean I don’t have Autism. It’s hard to know how many of these signs and symptoms you have got to have to know whether you have Autism or not, which is down to a Specialist to know.
This kind of behavior can be misunderstood for someone not being a very nice person but then hard to tell whose behavior is on purpose and who's not. The behavior of people with Autism may appear odd to other people. People with Autism very are unaware of how they appear to others but then feel guilty and ashamed if and when others tell what’s happened, this also is rather embarrassing for them as well.
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· As a baby most people may be slow at talking or they don’t say enough compared to other children.
· They may not respond to their name.
· They may reject cuddles.
· They may be in their own world.
· They may find it hard to communicate with others around.
· Having too many people around them may be too much for them, which Anxiety could be linked as well, they may feel as since of panic but you don't have Autism to have that kind of Anxiety.
· They may not be safe out alone until at least after leaving school age, they may have no sense of direction and unaware of others around them, traffic and etc, Anxiety could link into this as well.
· They may not like others entering their space but they may enter the space of others, Autism is a sense self meaning they are unaware of others and things around them.
· Not seeming to enjoy being with others but not seeming to be alone either.
· They may find it hard to fit in what others are talking about.
· Others may tend to leave them out of their company.
· How people with Autism may say something might be upsetting to others but not mean to be.
· There are certain behaviours that others can laugh at but the person Autism may feel hurt or and bullied.
· Some people with Autism can be easily led, for eg; if someone said to them go and take a run and jump, they may will because they may feel bullied by the person who said it.
· The way you say something very important to how you say it to people with Autism for eg; if they are in hospital and you say wait outside, they may wait outside instead of the waiting room.
· Facial expression, they may stare at people when not needing to but not being aware they yet they may not like the way some people may look at them, which could make them nervous, scared or even shy. Due to the fact that the way they are appears odd to others but it doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t accept the way they are but then it gives the person with Autism that fear because they face it so much in their lives.
· They may avoid eyes contact meaning if they have to look at you they find it hard to do but they may stare at you when you don’t want them to without being aware of how people see their behaviour. Very they are not aware of how they behave.
· They may rock, flop their hands and ever flick fingers.
· They may stick to a certain route for a long period of which they may or not change but if they do, it will in their time they will change it then the same will go again with another route, which will go on all their lives.
· They may be fussy about toys for example, colours, texture, style, size and etc.
· The same with food, colour, taste, texture and etc but it’s not in everyone, even people without Autism can be like that.
· They may find it hard to share for eg; they may go off the topic others are talking about and find it hard to share things with others.
· They may find it hard communicate in the way others do with each other.
· They may behave in an unimaginative way but others have got a good imaginative. Most People who have Autism play on their own which imaginative some even grow to be fiction writers.
· Many may be slow at having an interest due to comprehensive problems and memory, if they face this problem they also could have Dyslexia, Dyspraxia or both.
Introduction of Anxiety.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is known as a Panic Disorder, which is a sense of panic and fear. Panic Disorder Compulsive Disorder and Post traumatic Stress. http://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/phobias/anxiety-panic.php
There are 40 million adults in American who suffer from Anxiety, please find out online roughly how many people suffer from Anxiety?
Depression awareness.
· Depression is a feeling of sadness.
· A loss of energy the person doesn’t have any get up and go.
· With another person there’s no stop in them but other people could be different day to day.
· Some people can’t cope without anything happening in their lives.
· Some people could over eat.
· Others may not eat enough but others could vary from day to day.
· Others lose interest in lives but others vary day to day.
· Most people with Depression guilty, shameful, guilty, hopeless, and helpless and as if they are doing something wrong all the while.
· Most people with disabilities and health problems feel they are made to feel like a Burton because society tends to see us as hard work and costing too much money.
Anxiety is a feeling of worry and even anger whether we have a reason to feel that way or not. We all worry about something or someone one time or the other but it’s more of a worry for those of us who worry a lot. To worry about an exam, driving lesson or test and or etc is normal for everyone.
There are at least five forms of Anxiety.
· Panic disorder
· Phobias
· Post- traumatic stress disorder.
· Social Anxiety disorder (social phobia)
· General Anxiety, which is all the Anxieties all in one
Anxiety can be mostly linked to Depression.
Is or can Anxiety and Depression be a birth to life time health problem?
What is depression and Anxiety?
What is depression?
• Stress is the biggest killer of all, which can give us Anxiety a sense of worrying, panicking and anger.
• The purpose of this power point is to raise awareness of Anxiety, stress and Depression.
• Mental health awareness needs to be raised all year round not just once a year.
• The way the Tory government has treated people for the last six years is enough to make the most poor and most vulnerable depressed.
• In February we had mental Health and Depression week.
• We all know that Depression is a mental health and it needs to be understood.
• We feel sad and angrily.
• There are other Mental Health problems like Anxiety and stress.
Therefore without knowing we all could suffer from Anxiety, Depression and stress at anytime, anyplace and anywhere.
- • Understanding Anxiety and depression.
• Depression and Anxiety is a feeling of sadness and anger whether you have a reason to feel depressed or not.
• Depression and Anxiety makes you feel alone whether you are or not.
• You are not alone if you mix with others who suffer from Anxiety and Depression but raise more understanding to those who don’t suffer from it.
• We shouldn’t make a person with Depression feel bad if they feel sad for no reason.
• No one should be made to feel bad about them.
We can be so easily be misunderstood by others for someone we are not.
This is because depression is a hidden mental health problem.
Signs and symptoms of depression.
- you can’t sleep or you sleep too much
- you can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult
- you feel hopeless and helpless
- you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try
- you have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating
- you are much more irritable, short-tempered, or aggressive than usual
- you’re consuming more alcohol than normal or engaging in other reckless behaviour
- you have thoughts that life is not worth living (seek help immediately if this is the case)
· Verb (used with object), misunderstood, misunderstanding.
· 1.
· To take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
· 2.
· To fail to understand or interpret rightly the words or behavior of.
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· 1. Misconstrue, misapprehend, misinterpret.
· Everyone in the world has faults we are all to blame for something but not everything but then having disabilities and health problems doesn’t help or excuse us for and with everything either.
· We may not always be aware of the way we may say or and do things to how it may sound to others.
· This can make us misunderstood.
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· Others may find it hard to understand if you are feeling down for no reason.
· If we have depression it’s part of us whether we like it or not. Naturally those without Depression don’t understand us.
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· Most of us may find it easy to be alone so others don’t misunderstand them and don’t make them feel bad about ourselves.
How can depression be understood?
Never Say health problems are all negative, there are famous and talented people with health problems even or and disabilities.
When I say depression is a feeling of sadness it doesn’t mean we always showing sadness.
A lot of comedy famous actors who make us laugh suffer from Depression as well.
· A lot of people find it hard to understand how people who can make us laugh can feel so sad.
· Robin Williams took his own life in 2014 last year.
· People with Anxiety and Depression have to hide so much of everything it’s the easiest way for us to cope without being misunderstood.
· It doesn’t mean that everyone with Anxiety and Depression despite of how hard it is there are most people who can fight it.
· That doesn’t make people who have taken their own life as losers.
· Society is a loser because of the way it treats and misunderstands us.
People with Anxiety and Depression have a fight with our minds because we don’t stop thinking.
It takes a long fight with the mind for us to be truly happy.
For others life is too much to stay alive.
For most of us we don’t know our strength, we are strong than we think.
Crises like broken down relationships or the death of someone a person knows can play a big part on someone’s Anxiety and Depression.
· These things happen to everyone but everyone deals with it in different ways.
· I even found for years after my last relationship broke up I put the blame to all myself.
· I wondered whether or not I did or said anything I was unaware of that seemed wrong unfair to him, even though he was just as bad.
· In nearly eight years of our break after 13 and half years I have had at least six lots of counselling.
· I am pleased to say now I had four sessions left, which I have cancelled due to my work and my new partner I don’t them.
· Now I am all for helping other who is going through not much different to me.
It's turns out my last counselor said I was suffering from Mental abuse from my ex partner who made feel as if everything was my fault yet he could never make up his mind what he wanted.
· How does your counselling work out for you?
I must admit I have not had a bad experience with counselling but there are lots of people who have.
I must admit I have not had a bad experience with counselling but there are lots of people who have.
· There's a big certain that one day but then may be not that the government may cut the funding on these counselling services.
· Due to the fact GPs are not trained in mental health, counsellors, Health centres and hospitals have their work cut out.
· People with mental health problems once something is on the mind it’s on the mind until it is sorted.
· This is one of the reasons why we should be trying harder to save the NHS.
· Due to my work I hadn’t got time to attend my next four counselling sessions so they sent me a feedback form.
I wrote to my counsellor to thank her.
· She made me aware that I suffered Mental abuse with my ex partner for 13 and a half years and for a fair few years after we split for good, which had played a lot on my Anxiety and depression.
The last counselling service I used to go had they are having changes in their funding for counselling.
I had told my counsellor that I am a learning disability and mental health awareness trainer.
· I wrote to my counsellor to tell her counselling is needed mainly for vulnerable people who have gone through rape or and abuse.
· There are certain issues that vulnerable people find hard to overcome compared to other people.
I used to wish I wasn’t born.
· My ex made me feel as if everything was my entire fault.
· I had to stop putting all the blame on me.
· I use to blame myself a lot.
No one is perfect but no one can be blame for everything.
Just because you see someone smiles doesn’t mean we are happy, this is our way of fighting our health problems.
We don’t show sadness all the while because learn to live with our health problems.
Most of us have good days and bad days like other people.
It can be a long fight with the mind for someone with Anxiety and Depression to make them truly happy.
If we all went along with long faces all the time none of us would get through our health problems.
People who suffer from Anxiety and Depression aren’t all negative all the time.
Every day and night is a fight with the mind for people with mental health problems.
We do our best to be strong minded people.
· Society is weak by not having any faith in us by trying to make us.
· We shouldn’t have to be negative all the while to prove we have health problems.
· Society fails to understand us.
Inside our smiling faces we feel sad but not necessary all the while.
Different people who have Anxiety and Depression and other health problems are affected in different ways.
The same goes for confidence and self – esteem.
Some people can’t bear to not going to work or college where at others like to say at home.
For a least the last six years, there has been a lot of job losses due to the credit crunch.
Anxiety and Depression affects you on and off through your life, it’s more stress because it’s there for you long term.
We mustn’t let the government beat us despite of how hard they make life for us.
Different people cope with life in different ways.
GPs are not trained to do a lot of work but they are doing more hours than what they are trained for.
People with disabilities and health problems have been having health checkups since 2008.
· Not all surreys do health checkups.
· Not all surveys that do checkups do full health checkups.
· They say there’s not enough funding but it doesn’t make sense to why GPs are working a lot of hours.
It's a huge certain that Gaps are not trained to treat Mental health problems this is why they referral patients to Counselling services and clinics.
Patients who have lost their benefits can’t get counselling because benefits pay for counselling.
· This is a huge worry because if they lose their benefits there’s more of a need for counselling.
· Everyone who has Mental Health problems have different ways of managing our Mental Health for example many people with.
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· Funding needs to keep coming for Mental Health services.
· How long is going to be until the government make cuts on the counselling services to a point even people on benefits can access counselling?
· I find working helps me manage my Anxiety and Depression better so do many others like me.
· You can only work a certain amount hours on top of benefits but it’s better than doing nothing all.
· Other people may find working makes their Anxiety and Depression worse.
· People with disabilities and health problems can be talented.
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I will be honest to say the Mental Health Awareness wasn't just February but it was all of the month. Even though it's now March, all awareness is necessary to rise when it comes to people needing to be understood when they have problems that others don't understand. For example Dementia which I don't know a lot about myself but I know it can happen to all kinds of people. http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=103
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/dementia/resources/dementia-links.asp
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I will be honest to say the Mental Health Awareness wasn't just February but it was all of the month. Even though it's now March, all awareness is necessary to rise when it comes to people needing to be understood when they have problems that others don't understand. For example Dementia which I don't know a lot about myself but I know it can happen to all kinds of people. http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=103
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/dementia/resources/dementia-links.asp
http://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/uploads/news/vid_19037_RA%20Dementia1908Final%20LD%20edit%20docxPHE-2013179.pdfhttps://www.facebook.com/search/str/Disability%2C%20health%20problems%20and%20dementia/keywords_top?ref=eyJzaWQiOiIwLjIyNzMwOTk4NTU1MTk4MzEyIiwicXMiOiJKVFZDSlRJeVJHbHpZV0pwYkdsMGVTVXlReVV5TUdobFlXeDBhQ1
? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1603382066545036&set=gm.1557599871185769&type=1 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152779904689403&set=a.10151162503564403.462446.673079402&type=1
M/danielomichael/famous-people-with-mental-health-learning-disabili/ http://namivirginia.org/assets/pdfs/Famous%20People%20with%20Mental%20Illness%20Powerpoint%20Presentation.pdf http://gu.com/p/45qcv/fb
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/13/childhood-abuse-growth-brain-emotions
https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/dog-care/top-tips-overcoming-separation-anxiety
http://kyledavies.net/event-registration/
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-28/mental-health-issues-affecting-
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/13/childhood-abuse-growth-brain-emotions
https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/dog-care/top-tips-overcoming-separation-anxiety
http://kyledavies.net/event-registration/
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-28/mental-health-issues-affecting-
· The stress of the benefit cuts are making people with disabilities and health problems unwell.
· Many people have had suicidal thoughts and many have taken their own lives.
· When people have had their benefits cut there's no money for counselling for those who really need it.
· With the cuts the government has made it's surprising there are some Counselling services open but for how long for, even for those who haven't lost their benefits.
https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/about-learning-disability/learning-disability-and-other-conditions
https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2008-04/PMLD_definition_easy_read.pdf
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/martin-kemp-ive-two-brain-3885763
ADHD and ADD.
When I was a child I was hyperactive it’s possible it was cause by the side - effects of medication, which was Phenobarbital that was for my Epilepsy. I could never sleep or pay attention in school and I was always in a world of my own. My long term memory was alright but short term wasn’t but I am not much different now. When I came off the tablet there were quite a lot of changes but there are also quite a of things about me that are still the same.
· Following instructions, write things down in bullets points, 123, ABC but the person how they want the information laid out first.
· Some people may not be aware if you’re talking to them or they may think you are when you are not.
· They may find it hard to focus on more than one thing.
· They may daydream, get confused easily, learn and move slowly.
· They may find it hard to focus on things that are not clear or easy to read and understand this is where others can misunderstand them for not being interested in the topic, which isn’t always the case.
· They can be easily distracted, miss information, forget things, forget what others have said to them, find it hard to remember what they have read, find it hard to take in information and misunderstand.
· They could find it hard to focus on organizing, completely a task and learning something new and change is a big step for them. (Time keeping can be a big a big step for most people too.)
· From talking too to not saying a lot.
· From been active to not active.
· Constantly in motion.
· Finding it hard to sit and listen to others. (Fidgeting in seats.)
· Dash around, play or no energy at all.
What is Epilepsy?
Epilepsy is a lot more a serious health condition than what a lot of people think, which is hardy surprise to how strangely confusing it can be if comes and goes. Epilepsy is one of these health conditions to those who suffer from it different people can face different experiences from the health condition.
I myself was born with the condition I had seizures from birth to the age of 12 them 31 to 43 and I haven’t had a seizure 2 years. Just because a person hasn’t had a seizure for a period of time that doesn’t mean they don’t have Epilepsy because it’s unknown whether or not if they will have a seizure again.
If they are born with the condition like I was there’s a fair big chance the seizures could come back at any time. When my seizures stopped the age of 12 I built my hopes to think they would never come back again, I don’t built my hopes up this time round. The link I have sent at the bottom of this report, there is a new report I got off Face book about a 51 year old woman who hadn’t had a seizure for 20 years then suddenly died in the bath from having a seizure.
I have put another link about Epilepsy isn’t unknown anymore but it is unknown when so many people have been having so many scans and they have been coming back normal and people are still have seizures, which has happened to myself long before now.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is known as a Panic Disorder, which is a sense of panic and fear. Panic Disorder Compulsive Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress. http://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/phobias/anxiety-panic.php
There are 40 million adults in American who suffer from Anxiety, please find out online roughly how many people suffer from Anxiety in Britain? https://youtu.be/9Jckm3X5MXo
Category: Latest news
Created: Friday, 11 September 2015 12:48
The latest statistics from the Ministry of Justice show that, for the first time, more personal independence payment (PIP) appeals are being lodged than employment and support allowance (ESA) appeals. The success rates for claimants appealing a PIP decision have also increased dramatically.
Appeal numbers begin to climb.
In the first quarter of 2015/16 the number of ESA appeals lodged was 13,502. But in the same quarter 14,751 PIP appeals were lodged, making PIP the most appealed benefit for the first time.
ESA appeals have fallen from a high of 111,795 in the first quarter of 2013/14 to a low of 8,703 in the first quarter of 2014/15 and have since begun rising slowly again to their current level.
The massive drop is primarily due to the introduction of the mandatory revision before appeal system, which makes it much harder to get to the stage of lodging an appeal.
Overall, tribunal numbers are on the rise again, however, after a massive slump following the introduction of mandatory reconsideration before appeal.
They fell from a high of 160,077 lodged in the first quarter of 2013/14, down to 22,687 in the first quarter of 2014/15. In the first quarter of 2015/16 they had risen to 38,828.
This is still less than a quarter of the previous level and what is still not clear is how many mandatory reconsiderations are taking place and what proportion of those are successful.
More claimants win their appeals
Disability living allowance (DLA) appeal success rates for claimants have risen over time, although the number of appeals decided has fallen dramatically.
Disability living allowance (DLA) appeal success rates for claimants have risen over time, although the number of appeals decided has fallen dramatically.
In the first quarter of 2013/14, the success rate for DLA claimants was 40% of 16,229 appeals. This has risen to 56% of claimants winning 2,435 appeals in the first quarter of 2015/16.
The picture for ESA is very similar.
ESA success rates have risen from 42% of 77,289 appeals in the first quarter of 2013/14up to 58% of 12,101 appeals in the first quarter of 2015/16.
PIP success rates for claimants have risen from 26% of 81 appeals in quarter 4 of 2013/14 – the first time there were any PIP appeals - to 57% of 7,931 appeals in the first quarter of 2015/16.
The proportion of claimants who have won their PIP appeal has risen every quarter until they are now on a par with DLA and ESA appeals.
This is puzzling.
Mandatory reconsideration mystery
Mandatory reconsideration before appeal was introduced for PIP in April 2013 and for DLA and ESA in October 2013.
Mandatory reconsideration before appeal was introduced for PIP in April 2013 and for DLA and ESA in October 2013.
This should mean that all the most obvious wrong decisions by the DWP are overturned before they ever get to appeal. This should mainly leave the less likely to succeed and hardest to judge appeals going forward to tribunal.
In those circumstances you would expect the DWP’s success rate to increase. It is undoubtedly what the DWP expected to happen. Instead it has fallen considerably.
It is clear we need to know a lot more about what is happening at the mandatory reconsideration and appeal stage. But, as ever, the DWP are trying to keep those figures as vague and inaccessible as possible.
Benefits and Work is now attempting to obtain more information about mandatory reconsiderations. Meanwhile, the message is clear: appealing is very definitely not a waste of time.
You can download the latest tribunal statistics from this page.
Just to let you know that this report is written by my very close friend and partner Tim Hodge. 13.9.2015
I know it’s sad guys but I think you should read this man’s story to see how bad things are getting with the benefit system but more so on vulnerable peoples’ health.
Just to let you know that this report is written by my very close friend and partner Tim Hodge. 13.9.2015
Awareness of benefit cuts, disabilities, health problems and stress.
I am not saying it will be everyone’s’ cases but to how times are getting harder for people who are going through things such as the benefit cuts. Some people may find ways of accessing drugs and alcohol by going through other people if they feel very down in themselves due to their depression. This could cause risk of debt as well as health if it’s possible that others are accessing drugs and alcohol for them.
As now services can give people very little or no help people's’ lives are at risk of getting worse. Sorry to raise such a negative subject but the truth is how it is.
Due to the cuts there's very little help or not any to Mental Health services as well as Disability services this is now causing people with whom need the help and support to suffer in silence because it get's to the point everywhere they try they don't get the help they need, this is very worrying and something needs to be done about it because a lot vulnerable lives are in risk of being lost. This needs to be taken seriously mainly for those who can't afford to pay for living their home paying bills, eat and etc. A lot of people are in risk of going homeless.
As now services can give people very little or no help people's’ lives are at risk of getting worse. Sorry to raise such a negative subject but the truth is how it is.
Due to the cuts there's very little help or not any to Mental Health services as well as Disability services this is now causing people with whom need the help and support to suffer in silence because it get's to the point everywhere they try they don't get the help they need, this is very worrying and something needs to be done about it because a lot vulnerable lives are in risk of being lost. This needs to be taken seriously mainly for those who can't afford to pay for living their home paying bills, eat and etc. A lot of people are in risk of going homeless.
Just bear in mind people who suffer from for eg; Anxiety, Depression, Epilepsy, possibly Diabetes and etc are as twice as much sensitive to stress and negative situations more so than other people. In the time to a crisis the mind doesn't always think straight in when people reacting can be in most cases uncontrollable. More people turn to talent, others turn drugs, alcohol and etc others turn both in many cases all.
I have written this small paragraph. Sara Jane Gorman 13.9.2015
I have written this small paragraph. Sara Jane Gorman 13.9.2015
Here are four things you should know about consuming alcohol if you have epilepsy:
All of us can benefit from being moderate about how much alcohol we drink, but the stakes are higher when you have epilepsy. Maybe you’re wondering, “How much alcohol is safe for me to drink without triggering a seizure?”
There’s good news for you, according to Andrey Stojic, MD, Director of Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute at Lakewood Hospital. “Studies don’t suggest that rare or moderate alcohol use causes any problems for people with epilepsy,” he says.
How much alcohol is “moderate”? Experts define “moderate use” as one or two drinks a day, according to a 2001 study published in the medical journal Epilepsia.
When you should worry
“The biggest risk is with people who binge drink or use alcohol excessively. This can lower seizure thresholds,” Dr. Stojic says.
This is because excessive alcohol can impact the “excitability” of your brain’s nerve cells, Dr. Stojic says. This, in turn, can spur abnormal electrical brain activity that causes a seizure.
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4 things you need to know
Here are four things you should know about consuming alcohol if you have epilepsy:
1. Seizures and alcohol withdrawal are associated. “If you’ve been using alcohol to excess, don’t suddenly stop,” Dr. Stojic says. According to the Epilepsy Foundation, most seizures do not occur while a person is drinking. Instead, they are typically tied to alcohol withdrawal and can occur between 6 and 72 hours after you stop drinking. These are most common in people with a history of alcohol abuse who stop use suddenly.
2. Alcohol can reduce your medication’s effectiveness. “Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol can affect your liver’s metabolism, altering how you process anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs),” Dr. Stojic says.
These effects reduce your medication’s effectiveness in protecting you against seizures. Also, excessive alcohol can affect a person’s compliance with their AEDs, likewise diminishing their potency. Alcohol can even ratchet up some of the side effects of AEDs and make you drowsy.
3. Disturbed sleep patterns can trigger seizures. Nights out partying can significantly disrupt normal sleep habits, and for people with epilepsy, sleep deprivation is a common cause of seizures.
4. Watch for connections between alcohol and seizure frequency. “If you notice an association between any amount of alcohol and seizure frequency, then you should avoid alcohol,” Dr. Stojic says. This means paying attention to your body and the way it reacts to alcohol in your system, which can vary for different people.
“It’s really about doing things in moderation,” says Dr. Stojic. “Each case is individual, but many people can have an occasional drink and do just fine.”
Written by Tim Hodge 13.9.2015.
Written by Tim Hodge 13.9.2015.
Presentation on handouts.
Introduction.
— My name is Sara Jane Gorman.
— I am a Visiting Literature for the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall Campus.
— I raise awareness Learning Disability and Mental Health the Student Learning Disability nurses.
What is Mental Health?
— Most disabilities are linked with mental health problems.
— Most disabilities can affect people in a physical, Mental and emotional way.
— Mental health problems can be linked to physical and mental disabilities.
— Physical disabilities limit an individual's ability to physically function.
ICE BREAKER
— Now we are going to do the icebreaker.
— Now study what you need to learn about learning disability and mental health on sararevealed.blogspot.com/
— Please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com
— Thank you.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
— These are the aims and objectives for today.
— To define what a learning disabilities and health problems are.
— To inform learners about the needs and wants of people regarding your services.
— To explore and challenge values, behaviours and attitudes.
— To provide an introduction to producing accessible information.
Now I’d like to know what the word learning disability and mental health problems mean to you?
Clear information
— In your files there’s a handout of the accessible information guidelines.
— This will show how to make information clear.
— Don’t think everyone likes it the same so ask the person first.
— Get yourselves into groups of four and talk about it.
— You have 15 minutes to feed back to me, thank you.
What have you learned today from my presentation and website?
— Have we covered everything in today’s session on the post-its?
— I hope you have learned what you have hoped to learn.
— Please fill in the feedback form in your file to tell me what you have learned and how you feel about the session.
— Good bye have a safe journey home.
Handout.
Write about what you know about disabilities and health problems!
Make notes of what you have researched and what you know without researching.
Write about you want and need to learn about disabilities and health problems!
Introduction to Learning Disabilities & Mental Health Problems. What are learning disabilities and health problem?
WWW.mencap.org.uk
Different kinds of disabilities and health problems. http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-handout-about-disabilities-and-health.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/movingforward.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/websites-that-may-come-in-useful-for.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/disabilities-and-health-problems.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/introduction-to-depression.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-cuts-and-changes-to-benefits.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/birth-to-lifetime-disabilities-and.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/about-disabilities-and-health-problems.html
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/revision-you-may-need-to-learn.html
Communication and its importance.
https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/information-professionals/communication/communicating-people-learning-disability
http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/our-work/health-well-being/easy-read-guides-health-conditions/
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/pages/communication-problems-carers.aspx
http://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/about/faqs
Accessible information - easy read etc.
http://sararevealed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/up-to-date-easy-read-guidelines-make-it.html
http://www.accessibleinfo.co.uk/pdfs/Making-Myself-Clear.pdf
http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patients/accessibleinfo-2/
http://www.changepeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CHANGE_How_to_Make_Info_Accessible_guide_2009.pdf
Please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you. http://wolf.wlv.ac.uk/
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/health/health-watchdogs-criticise-ashton-gp-10029337
If you have only just started University naturally it's your first year. I have now been a visiting Literature since January the start of this year so maybe you can read up about what last year's 1st and 2nd year's students were learning so you know what to expect yourself but I will add on more handouts to this website in the future.
About the presentation, handouts and feedbacks.
Those of you who were in last year’s 3rd year class at the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall, students who have missed out on the start of the presentation on Thursday 3rd September 2015. I have put the presentation on this website again plus there is feedback from the rest of the students in your class and I did a session each for last year’s first and second year that will be now 2nd and 3rd I would be grateful if you can share all the feedback I put on here thank you with Learning Disability nurses students and trained.
I know that you have added your feedback on what I said on the presentation but please feedback to me on what you are now catching up on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you. My website sararvealed.blogspot.com/ the handouts are on this website.
I know that you have added your feedback on what I said on the presentation but please feedback to me on what you are now catching up on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you. My website sararvealed.blogspot.com/ the handouts are on this website.
This presentation is also written for other Learning Disability nurses students or trained Learning Disability nurses , I would also be very grateful if you would share the feedback with others who are in the same line of work as you to learn off one another whether for those of you that are students or trained. If you can please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
I do agree that there wasn't any time for me to teach you all that I wanted to teach you.
These handouts are on this website for all Learning Disability nurses student and trained to share.
There’s not enough time in these sessions to do the job how I want to, meaning read through the presentation and get you all into groups.
As for those of you who were late, I understand you have others things to do. The reasons why I write a lot my website for you guys to catch like there being very little time in teaching session.
I will start writing in the future many exercises for you to work in your time, then maybe if there’s more than one of you, you can work, learn together, off each other as well as off myself.
These handouts are on this website for all Learning Disability nurses student and trained to share.
There’s not enough time in these sessions to do the job how I want to, meaning read through the presentation and get you all into groups.
As for those of you who were late, I understand you have others things to do. The reasons why I write a lot my website for you guys to catch like there being very little time in teaching session.
I will start writing in the future many exercises for you to work in your time, then maybe if there’s more than one of you, you can work, learn together, off each other as well as off myself.
In future I will do other sessions not just the benefits so if you ever are at my session, I will always have them on my website so you can catch with work I didn’t have time to.
Waiting for the appeals.
How long?
• Appeals could take up to a year or two.
• If you have access online a lot please check every now and then to see if the information I teach like for example to find out whether or not people can appeal still if they have their benefits cut, please try to keep yourself up to date with these things when you time to do so.
• Some people have said that the government have said they are thinking about stopping appeals, it may or may not be true, they may have stopped them now or will be in the future so try to keep up with what’s going on as much as you can.
• Most people take longer.
• Some take longer than others.
The wait depends on.
• Peoples’ issues
• On people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.
The waiting time is a big risk to peoples’ health.
• People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive than other people.
• People worry about owing to people and services money.
• These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own lives.
• Most people have taken overdoses.
• Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull through.
• Not all GPs can check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
• People should have their health checks even more so while going through appeals but there’s not always the funding and time according to the system.
• People are in risk of being more stressed hungry or and going into debt.
• The food banks can only give people so much food.
• A lot of people feel embarrassed by having to have free food.
• Most people live on their own and they have very little support even harder if their benefits are cut or and stopped.
• People are in risk of losing their homes while their benefits are cut or stopped.
• The government has been known to cut and stop people's’ money with or without a reason just to save money.
• Altos and DWP have signed people off fit for work when people haven’t been fit for work and also without support.
• Just to let you know that not all people lose their lives over this.
• As strange it sounds most people lose their lives because the stress is just far too much.
. Anxiety and Depression is more of serious health problems than that what it looks like and the stress of everyday life is to blame for it.
Today.
• Here’s my website address to study the handouts to today’s session or and anything else you may find useful to learn off my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/
• Here is my email address sarajgorman@gmail.com
• ATOS KILLERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA
• • • http://www.focusondisability.org.uk/brates-1.html
• Please tell me at least three things you have learned to today or email me to feedback.
• • http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/27/fit-for-work-government-figures-seven-people-who-died_n_8047968.html Here is proof those who have died.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/woman-whose-amnesia-makes-her-think-every-day-is-15-october-2014-declared-fit-to-work-by-dwp-10493269.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-says-iain-duncan-6332712
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/woman-whose-amnesia-makes-her-think-every-day-is-15-october-2014-declared-fit-to-work-by-dwp-10493269.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-says-iain-duncan-6332712
• • http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/04/deaf-benefit-claimant-sanctioned_n_8089530.html
• http://samedifference1.com/2015/09/25/a-lose-lose-situation-the-dwps-catch-22/
• Please enjoy any other session you may have today.
• Please have a safe journey home.
• Bye for now.
As for personal budgets here’s exercise for you.
As for personal budgets here’s exercise for you.
· Remember what I said about checking what information is in and out of date.
· Check the updates with the benefit system online 2015 – 2016.
· On the some reports they may have at least rough budgets what people are getting different benefits.
· Check up what the difference in food prices in shops by where you live and even online.
· Which is the cheapest healthy food or unhealthy food, is it affordable to what people are getting on benefits when they have bills, even council taxi to pay, support worker/carer and etc to pay?
About the presentation, handouts and feedbacks.
Those of you who were in last year’s 3rd year class at the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall, students who have missed out on the start of the presentation on Thursday 3rd September 2015. I have coped the presentation this website again plus there is feedback from the rest of the students in your class and I did a session each for last year’s first and second that will be now 2nd and 3rd I would be grateful if you can share all the feedback I put on here thank you. I know that you added feedback on what you saw when you turned for the presentation but please feedback to me on what you now catch on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you. My website sararvealed.blogspot.com/ the handouts are on this website.
This presentation is also written for other Learning Disability nurses student or trained, I would also be very grateful for you feedback if possible to give you a chance to share feedback with others who do the same kind of work as you and if you can please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
Sara’s feedback to your feedback.
Introduction the feedback.
Just to let you know as strange as it may sound that these benefit cuts have a huge affect on people's’ health, even if they didn’t have Anxiety and Depression before hand, it can happen if people have their benefits cut because people worry how long it’s going to go on for and what is going to happen to them which is when the depression can kick to a point they feel they no use to themselves or anyone and life is not worth living, which is a huge risk because many people worry that they are going to be homeless in fact many people sadly are already through these benefit cut and the bedroom taxi, which that is something can look up online and learn about.
As for the risks, it’s a risk to peoples’ health and safety mainly when they have disabilities and health problems anyway which is really important you nurse keep an eye on their health, like said in the presentations all GPs can or even won’t. The worry is in fact mainly is with Depression is that there are so many people suffering in silent due to the lack help they are getting from services due to the cuts. Saying there is one service that has their work cut out that is https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ they are trained to help with these peoples’ problems but not the stress that these problems put on them which affects their health. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/
Example of proof if your patient is in any health and safety risk by services or force into situations not in their limits or and needs.
The best job you can do guys is keep an eye on their health the best you can. If they are going through anything that affects their health or a service or even the GPs isn’t giving them the help they need and their health and safety is at risk you need to put something in writing for proof if your management lets you.
Limits of what we can do.
For example: if they are forced into work they can’t manage without support. As for employment that doesn’t affect a person’s disability and health problem, unless we can’t move and can’t do anything for ourselves at all there’s no reasons for not choosing work that doesn’t affect our disabilities and health problems. Some of us have physical disabilities and others have mental disabilities, some like me have a bit of both.
Disability, health problems and work.
I wouldn’t be very good with physical and Manual work but I will be alright with say office work and teaching like I am doing now. Along as long as we are within our limits and we have the right support then we shouldn’t be a danger to ourselves and others.
Health.
Most GP surgeries do health checks and others don’t but even ones that do don’t necessary what you call full health checkups, which can vary. Bear in mind that it’s getting with the talk of NHS going private which is hard with a lot of people who are not on much money but it’s twice as worrying and probably harder for people who are vulnerable such people with disabilities and health problems.
For example: I was even finding them checking my weight and not telling me what it is, whether or not I need to anything about it or not. Mind you most people with disabilities and health problems say that the shop just can get they can only afford unhealthy but that can vary so much to the person’s needs and how far they can travel to get to a shop that sells healthy food to a price they can afford.
Everyone who suffers from for example Anxiety and Depression the way they cope with it is different and how it affects them is different. Some people can go from not having any get up and go to needing to always having something on in their lives others are one or other. For me I go both ways.
Myself for example: I don’t only love my job but it gives me something to look forward to and not only something to do. I am a very unhappy person if I don’t have anything to do but do have times I can’t bothered with much either, that mostly when I have times things are bothering me.
Those of you who have read my website before may have read me saying that Anxiety and Depression is a feeling of mood and sadness whether have a reason to or not. For me to have something positive in my life can stop from taking the negative that’s inside me out on others.
I have had my fair share down points when I was very young where now I think my word why did I let them bother me so much?
When I was twenty I took an overdose of my epilepsy tablets because I was force to carry taking them when I wasn’t even having seizures.
After I had cancer when I was twenty – three I nearly climbed out the window while I was going through radiography because I was so fed up of been stuck at home.
1997 I had a breakdown over a broken relationship I thought was very serious. Now thank goodness means nothing to me but meant a lot to me at the time. If you read my poems a lot of them will relate that experience.
What is the difference between negotiation and advocacy?
In class, we did an exercise where we had to answer whatever it was advocacy or negotiation for a given situation. I feel this was difficult as I didn’t have all the information about the cases but I was able to understand why situations required different outcomes.
Identify when negation is more approached by negotiation rather than straightforward advocacy? Consider also if a mixture of the two to be used.
- It’s a mixture of the two when an electricity company has written to a client to say that he/she owes £250.00, they are on a very low income. The company wants the money in full in seven days. It’s the advocate’s job to find out if the client owes that amount of money. If the client owes that money the advocate should negate
- A decision by the DSS to refuse a grant from the Social Fund because there is insufficient money in the local budget. This again could be a mixture of both. The advocate needs to find out if the client is entitled to the money, if any money in the budget. Negotiate a lower amount. (More money is to come from the budget.)
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- A decision is made by the local hospital to put someone on the waiting list to see a consultant. The waiting list is 12 months. (Advocacy) This again is a mixture of both. This will depend on how will the client is.
- A refusal by the council housing department to grant a tenant with rent arrears a housing transfer in order to be nearer relatives who provide care and support. This is a mixture of both again. Find out if the client owes money; try to negotiate with the council housing if they can transfer them with a training plan to pay back their arrears. At some point advocacy can only go so far.
It’s people like these people who don’t need to be on benefits who are making it hard for those who do. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148#ICID=FB_mirror_main
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