Talk:Personal Care Assistant

Need to include or mention or disambiguate eldercare
This article should address care of the elderly. Either that is part of what this article discusses, or it does not. If it does, it should be mentioned. If it does not, then reader should be referred to the appropriate other article.Thomas.Hedden (talk) 23:39, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Adequacy of funding....
Well done User:kikodawgzzz for starting this article. I am involved in a small way with a disabled charity run by disabled people for disabled people here in Finland. I am not disabled myself (except for a mental obsession to perfect Wikipedia) and have been considering becoming a PCA on a more formal basis. I think that the Finnish government at various levels gives quite generous support to disabled people, so it is kind of wrong for the article to imply that all financial support from government is inadequate. It does rather depend where you live. But despite good funding in Finland there is still a lot of marginalization by the rest of society that needs to be stamped out. What I have seen here is that State support for the disabled (special centers and facilities) tends to isolate the disabled person from the rest of society, and often there is no expectation that disabled people can make any contributions to society which I find quite extraordinary. It used to be the case in the UK that large employers used to be expected to fill a quota of their jobs with disabled people. I don't remember if that was a law or just a requirement to report on their efforts to meet the quota in the Annual Report to shareholders, but I remember what a boost it gave to disabled employment as it forced employers to think about what jobs that they have that could be done by a disabled person (deaf, blind, wheelchair bound, or whatever) and caused employers to actively seek out such people for employment. Aiding people to be more independent can lead some disabled people into situations where they actually do make a contribution to society and even pay taxes. And making them more visible and more integrated into society is a good reminder to non-disabled people also about people worse off than themselves and how taxes can deliver a good not just to the disabled person but to everyone. --Hauskalainen (talk) 08:34, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Comment
True that government funding for programmes to help the disabled live better quality lives, fully integrated in society, is a political and social issue of increasing concern. But the healthcare occupation category for PCAs is not the place to discuss it. There is another page on the rights movement that would be more appropriate than here. Rather, fully integrating within the text that PCAs are part of the larger health care system promotes this underlying message in a more neutral and scientific way. Guptan99 (talk) 19:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)