Providing individuals with empowerment is important.
Empowerment is about enabling individual to contribute and have an influence over the issues which affect the way they live.
Providing individuals with empowerment to make informed choices enables individuals to maintain their rights of choice, equality and opportunity, ensuring their care is person centred and valued.
When individuals make choices, they have more control and feel valued.
Providing individuals with empowerment to make informed choices enables individuals to maintain their rights of choice, equality and opportunity, ensuring their care is person-centred and valued.
Active Participation is a way of working that recognises an individual’s right to participate in the activities and relationships of everyday life as independently as possible.
The individual is regarded as an active partner in their own care or support, rather than just a recipient.
As individuals, the people you support will be able to do different things to other people. This is because everyone’s capabilities are different.
Supporting a person to feel valued and part of their community is particularly important to individuals who live on their own and do not work.
It means they have relationships and make friendships with other people giving them a more fulfilling life.
It doesn’t matter what kind of contribution they make or the type of activities they are involved in. It is positive to focus on what they can do, not what they cannot do.
Just being part of something will give them a sense of belonging, a feeling of self-worth and independence.
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