Psychosocial recovery services, a vital facet of NDIS offerings, extend a lifeline to individuals grappling with psychosocial disabilities. These services, orchestrated by NDIS disability service providers like Hi-Five, go beyond mere support — they foster empowerment, resilience, and social integration. In this discourse, we delve into the nuances of psychosocial disabilities, elucidate the role of trusted support coordination teams, and underscore the indispensable nature of psychosocial recovery services.
The Special Rate Disability Pension (SRPD), one of these payouts, is a very complex product with multiple determining variables. As experienced financial planners with SRDP payment experience, we assist our customers in translating and making sense of what this is and how it might benefit them.
A St. Anthony, N.L., mother who says she was told assisted suicide is an option for her 25-year-old daughter wants an apology from Labrador-Grenfell Health.
Twenty-five years ago it was common practice to bring about the deaths of some children with learning disabilities or physical impairments. This paper considers a small number of landmark cases in the early 1980s that confronted this practice. These cases illustrate a process by which external forces (social, philosophical, political, and professional) moved through the legal system to effect a profound change outside that system – primarily in the (then) largely closed domain of medical conduct/practice. These cases are considered from a socio-legal perspective. In particular, the paper analyses the reasons why they surfaced at that time, the social and political contexts that shaped the judgments, and their legacy.
... over the years there have been numerous complaints by hon. Members regarding the persistent bias of the BBC on matters relating to euthanasia and other life issues and on the manner in which the BBC have misused public funds to promote changes in the law; ... the bias of the Corporation applies not only to news programmes but to drama, with thinly-disguised plays and soap operas being used to promote the use of euthanasia ...; ... these presentations have culminated in the last weeks with a multi-million pound campaign featuring Mrs Kay Gilderdale in Panorama and ... Sir Terry Pratchett, given centre stage to present this year's BBC Richard Dimbleby lecture calling for euthanasia and supported by the BBC website; ... every disability rights group in the UK is opposed to the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia on the grounds that from experience they know it would undermine the right to life of the disabled; ...
Doctors will be allowed forcibly to sedate the 55-year-old woman in her home and take her to hospital for surgery. She could be forced to remain on a ward afterwards. The case has sparked an intense ethical and legal debate. Experts questioned whether lawyers and doctors should be able to override the wishes of patients and whether force was ever justified in providing medical care.
A cancer patient who has a phobia of hospitals should be forced to undergo a life-saving operation if necessary, a High Court judge has ruled. Sir Nicholas Wall, sitting at the Court of Protection, ruled doctors could forcibly sedate the 55-year-old woman - referred to as PS. PS lacked the capacity to make decisions about her health, he said. Doctors at her NHS Foundation trust had argued PS would die if her ovaries and fallopian tubes were not removed. Evidence presented to Sir Nicholas, head of the High Court Family Division, said PS was diagnosed with uterine cancer last year.
A new campaign by disability rights activists to limit the right to die launches at Westminster on Thursday. The campaign - called Not Dead Yet UK Resistance - will be asking MPs to sign a charter in support of its aims. It says that disabled and terminally ill people should enjoy the same legal protection as everyone else. Those in favour of assisted suicide argue that opposing assisted suicide will condemn terminally-ill people to suffer needlessly. The Not Dead Yet UK's charter includes a commitment to oppose any changes to existing laws which state that assisting a patient to commit suicide is illegal.
Graeme Catto, former president of the UK General Medical Council, has called for parliament to legalise assisted dying "in some shape or form" for a small number of people experiencing unbearable suffering. Professor Catto said he was expressing his personal view and not that of the GMC, which as the United Kingdom’s regulator for doctors had to support the law of the land and therefore could have no position on assisted suicide. Speaking at a conference on the ethics of assisted suicide at the Royal Society of Medicine on 30 June, he said, "I genuinely believe that if there were a change in the law it would pose no insurmountable problems for doctors."
Police are trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the death of a Glasgow man whose mother took him to a Swiss clinic to die. Helen Cowie told BBC Scotland's Call Kaye show she helped her son Robert, 33, commit suicide after he was left paralysed from the neck down. Mrs Cowie, of Cardonald, Glasgow, said her son went to Dignitas in October and "had a very peaceful ending". Strathclyde Police said they were not investigating the death at this time. However, a spokesman added: "The matter is being given consideration in an effort to establish the circumstances." Mrs Cowie said her son was paralysed in a swimming accident three years ago.
Terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide should be able to receive medical help to die, a government adviser on care for the elderly has said. Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department of Health, said patients who were too frail to take their own lives were being denied “choice” and “autonomy” because assisted suicide is illegal in the UK. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he urged ministers to review the law and suggested that a referendum or a free vote in Parliament should be called to settle policy on the issue. “If you’re going to give people ‘choice’, it should extend to whether or not they want to die,” he said.
Under English law a child born disabled, for instance by Tay Sachs disease, as a result of negligent embryo selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis (‘PGD’), can sue the relevant health professionals by means of a 1990 amendment to the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) (‘CD’) Act 1976. By contrast, a second child conceived outside the in vitro fertilisation (‘IVF’) clinic, whose Tay Sachs is not detected in utero by means of prenatal diagnosis, can have no claim against the relevant health professionals due to the decision in McKay and Another v Essex Area Health Authority, which held that a child can have no claim for so-called “wrongful life”. This paper argues that this difference is anomalous and inequitable. It highlights the inadvertent way in which the legislative exception was crafted and shows that there are no relevant differences between the selection practices of PGD and PND that would in any event justify such different treatment. It critiques the English ...
Mission: To raise awareness and to promote the integration of disability into the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy and business agendas, under a collaborative and multi-stakeholder approach. The ultimate aim is to enhance social inclusion and employment of people with disabilities in Europe, contributing at the same time to the development of responsible competitiveness of business and public administrations.
The iconic London underground map is relied on by millions of travellers every day, but its white background, small text and low contrast differences in colour can cause problems for people with many different types of impaired vision. 232 Studios and Ian Hamilton have launched an award winning app to overcome this.
This guide is intended for all broadcasters and producers. With the objective of the creation of a committee of higher representation of all estates interested in audiovisual communication media in order to involve them in the policies of normalization of the image of people with disabilities.Increasing and improving portrayal of people with disabilities in the media
NCDDR's scope of work focuses on knowledge translation (KT) of NIDRR-sponsored research and development results into evidence-based instruments and systematic reviews. NCDDR is developing systems for applying rigorous standards of evidence in describing, assessing, and disseminating research and development outcomes.
Rivista italiana di Disability Studies. Questa sezione della rivista risponde al tentativo di costruire uno spazio italiano per lo studio della disabilità per creare uno spazio di dialogo e confronto sulle tematiche riguardanti la disabilità secondo una “prospettiva sociale”.
Die erste „Krüppelzeitung“ erschien vor 30 Jahren. Von 1979 bis 1985 wurden genau 14 Nummern veröffentlicht. Die Ausgaben der „Krüppelzeitung“ bilden eine einzigartige Quelle und eine vielfältige Fundgrube. Sie dokumentieren die Brisanz der Behindertenbewegung. Sie kennzeichnen deren Geschichte genauso wie die Bedeutsamkeit für die Gegenwart. Die erste Krüppelgruppe hat sich 1977 in Bremen gegründet, die in Hamburg ein Jahr später. Die „Krüppelzeitung“ wurde ihr Diskussionsforum. Mit Normalität und Bevormundung sollte gründlich gebrochen werden. „Krüppel“ wurde als Begriff provokativ der abschätzigen Alltagssprache entwendet. „Krüppel“ stand für eine autonome Position der Behindertenbewegung.
Menschen mit Behinderungen werden in Deutschland ausgegrenzt und in Sonderschulen, Werkstätten und Heime abgeschoben. Nun tritt eine Uno-Konvention in Kraft, der ein radikales Umdenken folgen müsste. Doch die Bundesregierung signalisiert: Alles soll so bleiben, wie es ist.
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