Description:A practical guide to living with a disability or health condition- Do you want to live the life you choose?- Do you want to find out how to do this?- Do you want to read about people in the same or similar situations?If you have a physical or mental health condition, have just been given a life-changing diagnosis or your health is starting to worsen in later life. 'Taking Charge' is the publication for you.There is no other existing publication that pulls together in one place your 'rights' to a decent life, with choice and control - giving information on 'what you have a right to expect' from services, education and employment. The guide is intended to complement our ever popular Disability Rights Handbook.About the guideThe first part of the book deals with planning and managing your life, for instance after an accident or diagnosis, or as life changes.Then each section deals with an area of life:- Personal health and social care- Technology and equipment- At home- Your family- Getting around: travel and mobility- Leisure, sport, community activities- Learning, working, contributingWe also provide advice for situations when you don’t get what you need or feel you have been subject to discrimination.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Taking Charge: A Practical Guide to Living with a Disability or Health Condition. To get started finding Taking Charge: A Practical Guide to Living with a Disability or Health Condition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
216
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Disability Rights UK
Release
2015
ISBN
1903335663
Taking Charge: A Practical Guide to Living with a Disability or Health Condition
Description: A practical guide to living with a disability or health condition- Do you want to live the life you choose?- Do you want to find out how to do this?- Do you want to read about people in the same or similar situations?If you have a physical or mental health condition, have just been given a life-changing diagnosis or your health is starting to worsen in later life. 'Taking Charge' is the publication for you.There is no other existing publication that pulls together in one place your 'rights' to a decent life, with choice and control - giving information on 'what you have a right to expect' from services, education and employment. The guide is intended to complement our ever popular Disability Rights Handbook.About the guideThe first part of the book deals with planning and managing your life, for instance after an accident or diagnosis, or as life changes.Then each section deals with an area of life:- Personal health and social care- Technology and equipment- At home- Your family- Getting around: travel and mobility- Leisure, sport, community activities- Learning, working, contributingWe also provide advice for situations when you don’t get what you need or feel you have been subject to discrimination.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Taking Charge: A Practical Guide to Living with a Disability or Health Condition. To get started finding Taking Charge: A Practical Guide to Living with a Disability or Health Condition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.