| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| The right to take risks | | Author(s) | Alison Faulkner |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 14, no 6, 2012 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2012 |
| Pages | pp 287-296 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Adults ; Physical disabilities ; Mental disorder ; At risk ; Rights [elderly] ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | This article summarises a consultation by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) that aimed to explore the views of disabled people, mental health service users and other vulnerable adults about risk. The consultation reached nine individuals and one focus group, reaching a total of 17 disabled people and service users. Their views were supplemented by the literature. Findings of the study showed that the landscape of risk and rights is highly complex. Disabled people and service users have quite different concerns about risk to those of the professionals and the regulatory bodies acting on their behalf. Many people talked of the fear of losing their independence, of asserting their rights and the fear of powerlessness in the face of bureaucracy and (sometimes) uncaring staff. The profile of rights needs to be raised in an accessible and acceptable way - it is necessary to make the language of rights more commonplace. Raising awareness among professionals and policy makers about the risks that service users themselves fear and experience should demonstrate how important it is that the people whose risk is under consideration are involved in the process. The full report from which this paper is adapted is available on the JRF website at www.jrf.org.uk/publications. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121214258 A |
| Classmark | SD: BN: E: CA3: IKR: DP |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|