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Things I can do as a person with a disability to save money.

  This is a bit of a different post and I hope it doesn’t discourage my readers but I feel it’s something that we need to discuss, due to the fact that many people want to save money but don’t know how and there is a facility when it comes to saving money call the bootstrap fallacy and it’s that you need to just be able to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and this isn’t the case if you are in debt or need to save money it can be hard when you have a disability and your country doesn’t offer a care program. So, this is going to be a basic practical list and yes it will be Australian, but I think anyone could take something away from it. ·          Do up a budget and see if it's possible to cut things from it. ·        Have a clearly defined needs and want lists. ·        If you need new clothes, can you get the decent quality that will last so you aren’t constantly re buying items. ·        Link into advocacy and other services that can help your quality for care and ot

Diffrence between good and bad support

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 This seems to be a topic I constantly come back to as it is the backbone of the NDIS, and I am updating the blog as I learn more about support and I am not learning about it from a book or other “academic” sources. I am living it. So I am judging it by my own lived experience and this seems to be a good thing due to the fact that there is a definite difference between good and bad support and to go even further good and bad support workers. To put it in perspective basically those who understand the assignment at a deep level and for those who it is just a job, I see that some people have a unique combination of both of these, being that they understand the job is more than taking people out for coffees and are able to bog in and get the hard yards done so getting the house work done, getting a person into a good routine, keeping them in touch with family, friends and helping them to navigate these relationships with others and in a respectful ways. We also see that the general po