Technological Barriers to Support Sally Towards Independent Living
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Technological Barriers to Support Sally Towards Independent Living
Added on 2020-06-04
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 The way technology can be used to support Sally to live independently.........................11.2 Technological barriers to support Sally towards independent living...............................21.3 Assistive technology benefits...........................................................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Consideration of health and safety...................................................................................32.2 Ethical consideration in the use of assistive technologies................................................42.3 Emerging technologies impact.........................................................................................4TASK 3............................................................................................................................................53.1 Specific needs of Sally.....................................................................................................53.2 Appropriate devices for Sally...........................................................................................63.3 Technologies usefulness...................................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONAssistive technologies play an important role in daily activities of people withdisabilities. The report will cover the use of technology which will support Sally towards livingindependently. The barriers are also identified with benefits of such technologies to health andsocial care services. The ethical considerations in use of assistive technologies will be discussedin this report. The impact of emerging and recent development in technologies on health andsocial care services will be discussed here as well. The report will also identify the specific needsto support independent living and recommendations of appropriate assistive devices.Recommendations for assistive technologies and devices in order to evaluate the usefultechnologies for people with disabilities will be made in this report. TASK 11.1 The way technology can be used to support Sally to live independentlyLiving independently refers to live without any support or dependent on others. Itdescribes that a person is able to fulfil his or her chores without taking any support. The conceptof independent living is developed by some health and social care services which help peoplewith disabilities to live independently by providing them equipment and techniques effectively.This will help them to take part in those activities which they do not prefer as they are unable todo so. In case of Sally, who is a 42 year woman has some disabilities which has an impact on herdaily activities. She concerned a General Practitioner who helped her by providing ample oftechnologies to reduce the efforts towards chores (Abbott and Middleton, 2015). In a study, it hasbeen found that there are over 900 devices which help people with disabilities to support towardsliving independently. Such devices provide health and safety, security, activities act andadministration of medication. There are some technologies used for Sally as discussed below:Pocket Coach: Family members of Sally noticed the changes in memory functions thatshe provided a hand held person digital assistant which is also known as pocket coach to increaseher memory skills (Rodriguez, 2016).Spinner Knob: The device is useful to drive the car that helps in steering efficiently.Health and social care services provideded a spinner knob which will help Sally to drive the carand drop her children (Wang and Singer, 2016).1
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