Abstract The way nurses conceptualise disability influences their practice. Many use an individualised model, seeing disability as an individual problem arising from activity restriction and ...

For those who have never heard of the social model of disability it is best explained as the civil rights view of disablement. It separates impairment from disability and focuses on the responsibility ...

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) Emerging from the political activism of disabled people's movements and mainly theorised by the scholar Michael Oliver, the ...

Health and Human Rights, Vol. 22, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Mental Health and Human Rights (JUNE 2020), pp. 151-162 (12 pages) The social model of disability—which is grounded in the lived realities of ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact they don't have use of their legs or eyesight is the reason they might ...

The social model of disability is a framework that emphasises how social, cultural and environmental factors shape disability. The aim is to empower individuals and create a more inclusive society by ...

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...