Barriers are meant to be broken
Each problem can be overcome, because they are our own creation. Discuss… As we have seen in ‘ What do we think about when we think about disability? ’ , disability and other forms of profound dependence are normal, not unusual occurrences. It happens to everybody all the time This can’t be stressed enough. Each of us at some stage of our lives, whether temporary or permanent, will be reliant on others for our health, wellbeing, even our survival. We are dependent upon parents in our infancy; we become dependent on family members during ill health; we become dependent upon carers and health systems, as well as family members, during old age. What are the barriers? People in this situation find themselves facing all sorts of barriers to exercising their own agency within a societal…