I wasn't. I'll look it up. But I'm afraid (some) people with
dementia haven't much chance of "empowering" themselves, some, no
chance.
> Older people may also be disabled by attitude.
Theirs? or other people's? I didn't underestimate the nursing home
patients I met (or the patients on my mother's
geriatric/trauma-orthopaedics hospital ward). How they could have
empowered themselves is an interesting question.
Judy Evans
Cardiff (UK)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bracewell, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Disability and dementia (residential homes)
> Is everyone aware of the Better Government for Older People
movement? This is an
> increasingly self-empowering movement that has its origins in
sheltered and
> community homes. I have been invited many times to talk to them on
relevant
> issues and am increasingly impressed with their drive for the right
to self
> determination.
>
> Older people may also be disabled by attitude.
>
> Rob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Evans [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 02 September 2002 15:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Disability and dementia (residential homes)
>
>
> I suppose some people think of this as an issue for "the old" and
not
> about "disability". That may be why I am the only person who
> replied.
>
> But of course younger people are sent to what are normally thought
of
> as "old people's homes" for lack of an alternative.
>
> And there are separate homes for young people with certain "mental
> health" problems.
>
> Not that there are not old people who are disabled, too.
>
> So who speaks for those with dementia is an interesting question --
as
> well as politically important. Who *can* speak for them is an
equally
> interesting (and important) point.
>
> My mother's nursing home was good -- it's possible to "speak up for"
> someone by choosing the home with care, but you have to know how to
> choose -- but still not good enough. (I have though heard about the
> bad ones, of course.) As she lay dying -- during the 2 weeks when
she
> was officially dying, to die at any moment (of starvation, as some
> with dementia do) -- a good staff nurse joined me at her bed. We
> looked at her together. The nurse looked at me and said "This could
> be you or me". She paused, then said "This *is*
> you and me." That is right. My mother is us.
>
> Judy Evans
> Cardiff (UK)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Dennett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 3:15 PM
> Subject: Disability and dementia (residential homes)
>
>
> > Here is a thought, can anyone tell me who speaks up for those in
> > residential care (those with dementia and related conditions)?
> >
> > Now there is abuse of a group
> >
> > Steven...
> >
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