Disability: Disability Blog

Making a Home

 In some Canadian provinces, people with severe physical disabilities are simply warehoused in nursing homes, where many people, especially in the age of homecare, are in the final stages of their lives.  It is difficult for a young person to live in a home geared for death: their physical assistance needs are met, but their social, psychological and emotional are not.  Jen Powley argues that everyone deserves to live with the dignity of risk.--Back cover