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Powley, Jen

 
9781773635958: Making a Home: Assisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1773635956 ISBN 13 : 9781773635958
Editeur : Roseway Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

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 needs are not. Jen Powley argues that everyone deserves to live with the dignity of risk.

In Making a Home, Powley tells the story of how she got young disabled people like herself out of nursing homes by developing a shared attendant services system for adults with severe physical disabilities. This book makes a case for living in the community and against dehumanizing institutionalization.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jen Powley was born in Alberta, moved to Halifax for university and stayed. An author by circumstance, she wrote Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis, which won the 2018 Margaret and John Savage First Time Author Nonfiction Book Award. Powley has completed a BA and an after degree in journalism, as well as an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of King's College.

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Éditeur
Roseway Publishing
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1773635956
ISBN 13 
9781773635958
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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