How about bed-based or working from the bedroom? The closest parallels would be office-based or working from home, neither of which would appear to be offensive or negative.
I agree that confined to bed or bed-ridden are inappropriate.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:57:39 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Confined to bed - social model language
Hi there,
Me again ... just attempting to think of an appropriate term for a disabled
person who needs to remain in bed due to effects of condition and lack of
social provision - something like wheelchair user - but bed-user doesn't
really work. I do not want to use confined to bed as it conveys notions of
tragedy, passivity and dependency, while wheelchair-user connotes agency and
independence.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I could phrase this when I'm training
service providers re disability and dv - any advice/ideas would be greatly
appreciated (social model approach please)
Best
Pauline M
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