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Support individuals to access and use services and facilities

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‘Our work’ webpage on the Thistle Foundation website

Click to read about a good example of a service for people with long-term health conditions in Scotland. Consider if there are similar organisations or facilities in your area and how you could support others to use them.

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Click the link to access an article called ‘Disabilities and health: Healthy living’ which was produced by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the article and look at the other sections, links and the short video. Consider if there is any areas of good practice that you could bring into your setting.
Click the link to access the Government website and read a summary of the rights of disabled people. Read the article, thinking of the activities that you undertake in your day-to-day life, and consider how your access to these activities could be restricted if you needed care. For each restriction, consider the laws that may be relevant for ensuring your rights.
Click to read ‘Carers’ checklist: An outcome measure for people with dementia and their carers’.

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