Care and Support concens through lockdown

Normally I would be teaching care and support in the second year, this year I am going to bring it in a year early because of the lockdown. For the past ten years, the UK has been cut which has been affecting a lot of different things not just the lives of people with disabilities, mental health, and other problems. I will be honest to say due to been lockdown myself I am unaware of how much support and care people have been getting comparing now and before the lockdown and I think the changes in care and support also happened when the cuts started back in 2010, which makes think support and care may be getting lesser now.

People who get supported and cared for by different services companies etc may get different amounts and levels depending on their care and support needs. Some people need help with a lot of personal care such as washing, showering, bathing, dressing, undressing, cutting nails, etc. Others may need one or town or just a few of those. Big help needed in some people may be things like changing light bulbs, making beds, shopping cooking, cleaning, etc, which may be all. one or two or some. This can vary from one person to the other depending on the type of disability or other problems they face. 

A few years before my work with Mencap folded when we heard about the cuts coming I had to go round different places such as Outreach and a  care home that was on Sweetman Street,  to find out what people were thinking about the changes in their support, etc. Some were finding it hard and others it may be better in the sense of making them more independent, I think both ways were the same amount, pretty much 100 percent at that time.  In a kind of way, we were assessing needs, which what I think we should be doing in the lockdown. If or and when you face going placement depending on the needs services support. Some services may support high needs, others lowe, others in the middle or, and others may be all. Here's an example; 

preparing a meal with support.

Preparing a meal without support.

Cannot use a microwave.

Can use a microwave.

can take nutrition unaided.

Need support cutting up food.

Cannot feed and drink without support.

Can cut their own food and feed themselves.

This may vary from one to another where they may not be able to feed themselves drink but not food or the other way round. 

Washing, showering, bathing with support.

Washing, bathing, and showering without.

Toilet needs

Going to the toilet with support.

Going to the toilet without.

Dressing with support.

Dressing without.

Undressing with.

Undressing without. 

Communication

Can express one's self and make one's self without support to only able to with verbally.

Need or not heard to others with speech and being heard by others. https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/caringforyourparents/handbook/pdf/cfyp_adl_checklist.pdf