Disability Flashcards
Deserving & undeserving poor
What is a disability
-complicated, complex
-Still evolving
-historically & future
Needs&Means testing
Needs testing: needs assessment investigates the needs of the individual(housing,support care,equipment, personal care supplies etc)
Means testing: means assessment examines the actual funding that the individual has available to pay for assessed needs (income,pension,trust funds, savings, investments etc)
Disability Benefits in Canada
-employment insurance sicknes benefit: provides benefits for up to 15 weeks for temporary disabilities.
-CPP/QPP disability benefits
-Veteran’s disability pensions& Awards:
Veterans or members of the Canadian armed forces are eligible for a federal disability benefit administered by veterans affairs Canada.
- Private Disability insurance:
Many employers offer employment based short and long term disabilities.
-Worker’s compensation- security benefits for wage losses arising from disabling disease or injury cause by work exposures.
-Social Assistance-disabled Component: programs of all provinces provide benefits to persons with a disability in most provinces eligibility for benefits is determined by a combination of the duration of disability and needs testing.
-Disability Tax Credit(DTC):
Available to persons with an impairment of physical or mental functions that has lasted or is expected to last one year, those who blind and those who are receiving life sustaining therapy.
-Regustered disability savings plan(RDSP’S): offered by financial institutions to Canadians who are eligible for the disability tax credit and are under 60 years of age.
Accessibility legislation
The Accessibility Canada act (ACA)
The accessibility for Ontariens with disabilities Act (AODA)
The Employment Equity Act
Social Determinants of Health of Canadians with disabilities: poverty, employment.
Stigma/Ableism Slide definitions
- disability stigma: to have a disability is to be undesirable and unlovable
Ableism- this is the belief in the superiority of people without disabilities-term evolved from the persons with disabilities rights movement in the US AND Britain during the 1960s and 1970s.
Stigma in all manifestations- the “PCS” can be used to detect and combat the presence of ableism- Personal prejudice:Revulsion,avoidance,infantilisation. Cultural norms: A negative image of being disabled(people without disabilities are valued more than those with disabilities). Social division: the many ways in which people with disabilities are kept out of the mainstream and marginalized because of structural and legal barriers.
4 approaches to disability Models
Medical- this theory states that disability is a medical problem. It’s introduced as a means of “curing” or “fixing” the individual.
Social- this approach states that the problem faced by people with disabilities are not just physical impairments but also results from the social and political inequality between people with and without disabilities.
Biopsychosocial- this approach integrates the medical and human rights models to provide a more comprehensive framework for measuring and addressing disability at both individual and population levels.
Structural- assigned to assist social workers in their daily practice- the model incorporates personal and systemic assessment and interventions and encourages practitioners to work with clients and their families at the personal level and with organizations and advocates to bring about broader societal change.
