The Low Review: Personal Mobility in State-Funded Residential Care

This is my response to a very provocative comment on The Low Review: Personal Mobility in State-Funded Residential Care website:

If they are in residential care they do not need mobility payments. If there partners or family wish to visit them they should fund this themselves...Posted by a Richard on July 18, 2011 at 4:31 pm

Dash it! I could not help it:

Ah, Richard I wish you good health and that you enjoy all the mobility that you still have for many years and the same for your family as I fear that you may not have the strength necessary to be able to cope when it will be suddenly withdrawn from you! My mobility is gradually diminishing as my Multiple Sclerosis (MS) progresses. I know that it is very possible that I will be in residential care. I spent many years apparently not qualifying for the care necessary to help me go out of my house even if I had a motability car. After a shocking 15 weeks in hospital and a very poor understanding of MS from medical and caring staff my mobility deterioration progressed and I have for the last 3 years battled to prove “them” wrong to regain some mobility and recently I have been able to use a modified family car to get someone to drive me to the gym and I am buying a wheelchair with added power pack which I will have to maintain regularly with my allowance and a standing frame to help strengthen my back which got weakened by my stay in hospital because I very much suspect that it will be deemed “unnecessary” as it is an expense that my local authority will not afford…I imagine that I would need to stand and move in residential care! Read my blog standup4ms.blogspot.com