Elderly Medical Care Discussions| Access for the disabled......Mobility Aides... | | Many elderly people have disabilities which limit their mobility. Do buses, shops and public buildings in your country provide easy access for the disabled or are your towns and cities designed mainly for the young and able-bodied? Why is this?Here in our country, most establishments such hotels, malls, and the like do care for our fellows who need to have wheelchairs to move around. We have these ramps at the malls and elevators which in a way helped them. | |
| | Forget racism... anyone catch what Rand said about disabled people? | | I listened to this interview live on my way home from work the other day and my jaw nearly hit the floor.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985068"Dr. PAUL: Right. I think a lot of things could be handled locally. For example, I think that we should try to do everything we can to allow for people with disabilities and handicaps. You know, we do it in our office with wheelchair ramps and things like that. I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. "Really?Really!?!?!So a wheelchair bound employee should just never see anything except the first floor? What if there is a meeting on the upper levels? A person in a wheelchair should just wont be able to attend? Too bad... so sad...If you were in a wheelchair how would you feel if your employer told you you arent allowed anywhere except the fisrt floor because its just too expensive to accomodate your handicap anywhere else? | |
| | This is wheelchair accessible? | | Like most people, I've never paid much attention to wheelchair ramps at restaurants. I never thought twice about using the handicap stall in a public restroom if it was available. I remember noticing people parking in handicap parking places and walking into stores without any visible handicap and wondering how they got their permit. I CAN say, I never parked illegally in a handicap parking spot.Since I've started using a wheelchair for family outings, I've noticed there is a wide variance in the compliance of "wheelchair/handicap accessible". Many public restrooms are extremely difficult to navigate. Many stalls are slightly too narrow for a wheelchair to actually fit into the stall. I've had to park my wheelchair in the doorway of the stall, struggle up to the toilet while my daughter stood as lookout, and used the facilities without the privacy of a closed door. Some have a handicap bar on one side, but I had to hold onto my daughter on the other side to keep from using the toilet seat to steady myself. Some hallways or entrances to restrooms are actually too narrow to navigate without hitting walls or bumping door jams. I even had to use the restroom in a doctor's office... | |
| | Regardless of the Ability to Pay | | In US, We the People demand our rights to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Our Constitution establishes a government and defines the roles of the people working in it.Along the way many seem to have decided that there is no life, liberty or happiness without entitlements. The entitlements are meant to be based on "need", but in demanding entitlements for the needy, haven't we defined what needs are more important than others... but more dangerous... whose needs are more important than others?We have taxpayer funded programs that provide food, health care, transportation, heating/power/water assistance and all sorts of other things for the "needy". However but don't we all "need" food, health care, transportation, heating/power and water? Sure, some people can afford food better than others, since when do we base Constitutional Rights on the ability to pay?Where does it say, "Life, Liberty & the pursuit of happiness to those who can't afford them... the rest of you can fend for yourself".Why are the "needy" entitled to anything not freely available to all in the first place?I can see why buildings and property open to the public should be made... | |
| | Help For People with Special Needs is NOT a Right! | | In another thread, a member here at MyLot brought up an argument that I decided deserves a thread of its own.How far should the government go in supporting people with special needs? To me, not very far.Yes, all public buildings and facilities should be designed to accomidate as many special needs as possible... but a line does need to be drawn somewhere.Private property on the other hand, should be left up to the owners. Even if that private property happens to be a business open to the public.Why?Because no one has the right to impose their needs on someone else.I'm disabled myself. My particular disability has something to do with the fact that I pass out once in awhile for no apparent reason. I have lived with a constant dizziness for 5 years now, sometimes it's barely noticeable, other times it's maddening.Should the government make sure that I'm safe everywhere I go? Should all floors be padded to make sure I don't get hurt if I happen to be there when the lights go out for me? Should all corridors be fitted with railings for me to use when I'm feeling dizzy? Should I be able to sue for discrimination if anyone and everyone doesn't alter their... | |
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