Disability and Legislation

Question 1

What is the ICIDH definition of impairment?

Answer 1

(Concerned with abnormalities in the structure of the body or its parts)- Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function.

Question 2

What is the ICIDH definition of handicap?

Answer 2

(Concerned with the broader social and physiological consequences of living with impairment and disability)- A disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or a disability, that limits or prevents the fulfilment of a role that is normal (depending on age, sex and social/cultural function) for that individual.

Question 3

What is the ICIDH definition of disability?

Answer 3

(Concerned with the performance of activities)- A restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.

Question 4

What is the Disability discrimination act (DDA)?

Answer 4

The DDA aimed to end the discrimination which many disabled people faced. The act gave disabled people rights in the area of employment, access to goods and buying/renting properties.

Question 5

What is the equality act 2010?

Answer 5

The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations.

Question 6

What are classed as day to day activiies?

Answer 6

• Able to lift objects
• Speech/hearing/eyesight
• Being able to understand you are in physical danger
• Memory or ability to concentrate, learn or understand.

Question 7

Name some discrimination barriers.

Answer 7

Physical access to premises, lowered educational expectations, excluded from employment, social policies imposed.

Question 8

Name some prejudice barriers.

Answer 8

Unwanted centre of attention, patronised, denied respect, denied anonymity.

Question 9

What are the three things that are key to independence and choice?

Answer 9

Information, access and transport.

Question 10

Any person, whatever the nature of their disability, has the right to:

Answer 10

• Be treated in a dignified manner and valued as equals
• Be consulted about their needs and influence plans
• Be neither over-protected nor under-protected
• Avoid being segregated from the rest of the community in work, education, recreation or where they live.

Question 11

What adaptions to the dental practice can be made for disabled people?

Answer 11

• Designated parking areas close to premises
• Appropriate signposting for those with sensory impairment
• Ground floor level access
• Ramps for wheelchair access
• Handrails for support
• Wide doors and corridors for wheelchairs
• Unisex disabled toilet facilities
• Wheelchair turning circle within surgery layout.

Question 12

What does BSDH stand for?

Answer 12

British society for disability and oral health.

Question 13

What are the BSDH objectives?

Answer 13

• To improve, preserve and protect the oral health of people of all ages with disabilities
• To undertake study and research into the provision of dental care for people with disabilities and to publish useful results
• To develop undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the subject.

Question 14

What are the BSDH guidelines?

Answer 14

• Oral health care for long stay patients and residents
• Oral care for people with a disability
• Oral care for people with a learning disability
• Sedation and day case GA for people with special needs
• Oral health care for people with mental health problems
• The oral management of oncology patients requiring radiotherapy, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation.