Being Disabled in Hospital: Tips for managing an admission
Tips for disabled people on managing being admitted to hospital.
Tips for disabled people on managing being admitted to hospital.
Tips for disabled people to be prepared in case of unexpected admission to hospital.
Some suggestions on how the NHS could improve the experience of disabled people admitted to hospitals.
My experience of how difficult it is to have your needs met when disabled and in hospital.
……….How do you maximise your independence in bed, when you need help to turn, be positioned, and reach for things? A conversation with a friend with similar impairments In Carrie Aimes’s excellent blog on living with Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy...
…………How do other wheelchair users with limited upper body strength manage to walk your dogs independently? A discussion between a group of disabled people with pets My greyhound is the centre of my life. Getting him was a spontaneous decision...
I can’t leave the house without encountering disableism. People always presume I’m needy, childlike, tragic, dependent. They speak past me, speak over me, and ignore me. Rarely does anyone engage with me as an independent adult, unless to ask questions...
Over the past seven years of employing PAs, I’ve had some excellent employees, some dreadful ones, and the rest have been somewhere in the middle – with great strengths, but also weaknesses. I’ve also learned that the same is true...
……….Wheelchair Services have offered my son a Salsa M electric wheelchair. How do you find this wheelchair, and what postural set-up do you use? The parent of a boy with muscular dystrophy asking on a forum for young disabled people...