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Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing What is Going On

Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing What is Going On

Smith-Merry, Jennifer
Watharow, Annmaree

Paperback

Series: Disability Studies

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1915271428
ISBN13: 9781915271426
Publisher: Lived Places
Published: Feb 22 2023
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How does a patient with sensory disability - such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both - get effective communication from a health care provider?

Too often, the answer is that they don't. Communication is crucial for any professional-patient relationship, not least when disability is in the mix. For people living with sensory disability, however, the challenge of knowing what is going on with their healthcare, participating in shared decision making, and retaining an appropriate level of agency, is even greater. Using verbatim testimony from people with first-hand experience of sensory disability, this book explores issues such as accessibility barriers in consent forms, patient information sheets and other paperwork; situational vulnerability to abuse and neglect; and dehumanisation, infantilisation, and disempowerment in care.

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