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Making a Home: Assisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773635958)
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xIn most 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 through developing a group home for adults with severe physical disabilities. This book makes a case for living in the community and against dehumanizing institutionalization.Author: Jen Powley
ISBN-10: 1773635956
ISBN-13: 9781773635958
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2023
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
By Jen Powley
xJen 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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