It is all that much more a complex issue as it situates itself in a
transitional marcherland where communication involves the use of some
intermediary language to facilitate a common understanding.
It is all the more complicated by the existence of judicial and legal
structures, that have taken words, phrases and common meanings from a
variety of sources and epistemologies and cobbled them into there own
system, which can only be described in essence as the equivalent of
Cheiromancy or Astrology with the legal professions rigid fixation with
rules and paradigms with only a surface attachment to any notional realities
of the lived in and experienced world.
So when I am arrested for fighting a duel with fellow old fogey, IDS in St
James Park, do I take the stance of being a rock hard avenging Zorro, or do
I plead, I am a vulnerable person, and IDS viciously set upon me m'lud?
Larry
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> Subject: Re: Vulnerable adults
>
> It's a social model versus medical model issue: to describe someone as a
'vulnerable
> adult' is to make the individual the problem, rather than the context in
which they
> experience their impairment/illness or other characteristic.
>
> A social model approach recognises that someone is not 'vulnerable'
because of their
> impairment but because of the way society responds to them. So for
example, a person
> who does not use speech to communicate is vulnerable to abuse if they are
exposed to
> abusive people who see them as an easy target and if others do not take
the trouble
> understand how they communicate what they have experienced.
>
> Or, if someone was blind/partially sighted, they are vulnerable to injury
if they are not
> provided with the assistance/equipment to enable them to safely move
around a strange
> environment.
>
> 'Vulnerability' is created by others, not a characteristic of the
individual.
>
> So if I was having to write such a document as you refer to, rather than
talk about
> 'vulnerable adults' I would try and place the emphasis on others'
> behaviours rather than on the disabled person.
>
> But I know it's hard!
>
> Jenny
>
e.
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