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Should I or Shouldn't I???

  • 13-10-2006 11:18am
    #1
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,663 ✭✭✭✭


    Mental Mickey here again!!

    I'm looking for advice from fellow disabled people.

    I've been talking to one of my work colleagues about my housing situation, and the waiting period to get a place in one of the training apartments in the IWA headquarters in Clontarf.

    My colleague suggested that I should go around looking at the new developments coming on stream and put my name on their list!!??

    Would this be of any advantage, or should I wait until I have done my stint out in Clontarf????

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Is looking at the new developments going to interfer with the Clontarf waiting list?


  • #3
    FranknFurter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭FranknFurter


    The IWA apartments in Clontarf are there for people who need assistance learning how to live independently. If you feel you need to learn such skills, then wait for one.

    If you feel you dont need to learn those skills, then by all means put your name down for a new development and start house searching, dont clog up the waiting list further by just doing it for the sake of having one.

    And dont be fooled, the ones in clontarf are TINY, and you are monitored to assess your progress and there is a time limit on how long you can stay. Its a training service where you are taught how to go from as a starting point, NOT a way of getting a house to live in for years.

    I was offered one many moons ago but felt I could cope on my own so I got my own place, it wasnt easy and to this day its not always easy but by taking one in the IWA if you dont need it, you are depriving somone of learning how to become independant.

    B


  • #4
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,663 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    I DO need a stint in the IWA place, BIG TIME!!

    I can do things like dress myself, wash myself etc., but I have no use of a toilet or bathroom, so I don't how dependent/independent I'd be in my own home(if I had one), so I think the training apartments in Clontarf would be EXTREMELY beneficial!!!!


  • #5
    FranknFurter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭FranknFurter


    Then if I were you, Id wait for one of those :)

    As part of your independant living training there, they will help you find a place when you feel you are ready. And they will tell you how to get yourself a PA etc to enable you to live as independantly as possible.
    They have a dept there called ILS (Independant Living Services), who can be usefull at times. And once you get there they will show you the ropes.

    A friend of mine spent a year in one and said she learnt a lot from it, and said she wouldnt have been able to live independantly without the experience, however, another friend spent a year there and said he hated every minute of it because the house was tiny (they really are, I went to visit him once and never went back because 2 large electric wheelchairs barely left enough room for anyone to walk around),and he felt he was being constantly watched and pushed too hard. Its a personal thing really

    Best of luck,

    B


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