Models of disability

Question 1

diversity

Answer 1

• the ability and means to choose our life course and should be spread as equally as possible across society

Question 2

what has there been a demographic shift of

Answer 2

transition to aging societ

more suffer long term chronic conditions

Question 3

disabillity deficnitions

Answer 3

Medical
- activity limitations that result from one or more chronic conditions
Social
- something produced by society through disability structures and disabling societies
Biopsychosocial
- results from the complex interplay of social, biological and psychological factors

Question 4

medical models of disabiliyt names

Answer 4

impairment
disability
handicap

Question 5

impairment meaning

Answer 5

• can lead to a disability

- any loss of abnormality of a psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function

Question 6

disbility

Answer 6

• a restriction of 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 7

handicap

Answer 7

• 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 factors) for that individual

Question 8

models of oral health

Answer 8

wilson and cleary (quality of life)

lockers model of oral health

Question 9

what can be intereralted

Answer 9

impairtment disability and handicap

Question 10

problem with medical model of disabiloity

Answer 10

individual has to find ways to access the solution to their problem by accessing medical help
ie the problem is the disabled person
BUT
the problem is the disabling world

Question 11

explain the social model for disabilty

Answer 11

social model is a critism of those around us
rather than the impairment themselves
- if impairments were taken into account we would have. build a less narrow perspective of the world

Question 12

criticism of the social model

Answer 12

1) Failure to appreciate the body
2) simplistic doctrine rather than a scientific model
3) ignores impairment
4) narrow model that does not appreciate diversity in disabilities

Question 13

how is dentistry set up

Answer 13

at a disadvagnatge for those with a disabiity

Question 14

mental capacity act

Answer 14

cannot prejudge if someone has capacity to consent to treatment
- should include people in choices and decisions concerning their own health