The Special Ed Insider, written by a parent of a child with a disability, talks about the red tape involved with getting a potty chair for her daughter with developmental disabilities once she no longer can use those available in stores.
Let's just say she's up to 21 steps and the potty is nowhere in sight.
These are the kind of stories I hear that make me wonder when we will embrace the types of changes that empower, rather than tie the hands of, those in the disability community. Whether its a parent's time, or the time of an adult with a disability or his or her spouse, why is it so difficult to see that we must streamline the process to get durable medical equipment?
Until we do, it turns what is already a difficult care situation into another part time job for someone - whether it be a family member, the person with a disability or a paid caregiver.
3 comments:
I'm on step 5 for a mattress...
Yes, insurance issues turned into a half time job for me for a while last year. Exhausting, since I was working full time, had tons of appontments, and actually needed to slow down on how much I did.
Greg- what's frustrating is how predictable it is that it will never be just a few steps.
Frida- I see these issues with insurance as huge obstacles toward getting equipment - which leaves money in the insurance companies' coffers.
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