There are roughly 1.5 million people in the UK, in different ways, different people depending on the people, the disabilities and or and other problems they face struggling with some these for example and others struggle if not all of these things, health, education, employment, household tasks, personal care, socializing, making friends, having relationships, etc but with the right support it doesn't make it impossible them to access these things and have a life as equal to what everyone else does. https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/research-and-statistics/children-research-and-statistics
https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/research-and-statistics/friendships-research-and-statistics
Righty, so Mencap says that Mental health is not the same as learning disability but they can both affect people at any time and may overcome with treatment but not go altogether, which affects peoples' lives one way or another activity, etc.
Research says 42% to 27% of adults with learning disabilities face mental health and 40% of children with learning disabilities face mental health, which was rarely noticed in the past.
From what I have written so on this post gives me concerns about whether we have a Coranvirus lockdown or not but even so as we have. We all know the Coranvirus is important no is say it is not and even though most of the lockdown rules are relaxed now because so people having but I as well not everyone. Therefore, everyone understands not everything is going to be relaxed. This lockdown has been impacting all the same on everyones' health such as things just as serious as Coranvirus as cancer, Stroke, etc, which slowly as this year carries on into next other things that can be dealt with. Not only for people with disabilities, mental health other problems but for everyone. There must loads of people on waiting lists for other things before the lockdown started as well as while it's been happening.
However' when facing disabilities, mental health other problems, through no fault our or anyone elses' this is even more so a challenge, due to the problems we face as it is without having Coranvirus, Cancer, stroke or anything else. When I started working for Royal Wolverhampton Mencap back in 2007, I was faced with the indifference report, which I saw on the internet at home. I called up the Advocacy coordinator of the Self - Advocacy group I worked, made her aware, she bought it up online herself and we both agreed we needed to be doing some work around it with our self - advocacy Our Shout, which was drama plays talks, etc at the University by us, which we did. These shocking cases in this report empowered us to raise awareness of our experience with the health profession. https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2016-06/DBIreport.pdf If you read Mencap's death indifference report you may or may not understand why I am writing what I am writing now.
Throughout lockdown, most health most yearly check-ups have done the phone, which mine has anyway due to the fact of not traveling anywhere since before lockdown, etc, which mean most things don't possibly get done like blood tests, etc. Now lockdown is easing a bit, I see no reason why not it shouldn't be a little earlier to get appointments, etc.
The Covanvirus lockdown raises health concerns for us with other things as well as Coranvirus for everyone but even more so vulable people. https://easy-read-online.co.uk/media/1231/healthcare%20for%20all%20easy%20read.pdf
https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2016-06/good-health-care-for-all.pdf
http://www.surreyhealthaction.org/downloads/Hospital%20Communication%20Book%20-%20version%202%20-%20web.pdf
https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2016-06/mental%20capacity%20act%20resource%20pack_1.pdf
https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2016-06/NHS%20EM%20-%20PMLD.pdf
https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/resources-healthcare-professionals
All these sites are to support vunable peoples' needs and wants balanced with the concerns of parents, families etc. However' the lockdown doesn't make it easy for vunable people to have the rights of their choices of life, our indenance, which is the same for everyone but it's not always possible to get the right amount of support with things we need it for.Therefore, this makes parents, facilities, even carers more concern than they were before lockdown. This could be seeing friends, partners, going to college, work etc. Although most things are in place online these people may need support different areas, where for some areas may not be possible unitll the government allows face to face support, which peoples' support may vary at home.
It understandable why vunable people may want their own choices and independence to life, which some areas may not necessary because parents, families etc disagree what the person want to do or not but may have concerns for the person's safety on how the disability or and other problems may affect the person's life.Many people debate, some may say the person has rights to their choice and others may say it's understand why parents, families etc would worry but both is true. When I was working for Wolverhampton Mencap Royal Mencap we were working with a company called Mackintyre which or may or may not be still around they just started at this point, one our projects were the Person Centre Planing and the idea around it was to through with people how they want to live their lives, that they were protected by parents, families etc in the nicest possible way, involve parents, families etc to see how those chooses of the persons' can be supported. Rather say for example okay climb a mountain. Then just leave them to it. Bearing in mind all this can vary to different disabilities, all problems communication etc; where some peoples' problems are mild, moderation or several. This could be whether it is to do with health, education, work social lives, where they want to live who they want to live with etc. What is pretty similar but very much health and that is the Incapsity act. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/making-decisions-for-someone-else/mental-capacity-act/
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