Little Known About Group Homes For Developmentally Disabled Adults

By Scott Cooper


Mentally disabled people are those whose minds are abnormal making them different from normal people. These people do weird things that make them not fit to be called normal. Neglect is part of the things these people go through since they are not recognized by the society; hence, they ought to be taken to group homes for developmentally disabled adults.

Family members of mentally challenged people go through hard times since the care they require is intense. Monitoring them so that they cannot injure themselves and anyone else is hectic to the family members hence causing emotional distress. This stress leads to cases of depression which kills one faster than any other deadly disease.

Challenges that the mentally disabled people face are numerous to mention but a few includes; poverty, poor hygiene and disease attack that leads to poor health and job discrimination. These challenges if not well looked into they follow them up to their graves. Life is not as smooth as people think and to these people who live with the mental disabilities hence they try to survive through tooth and nail.

Having a wider look into these problems the mentally challenged do face, scarcity of different commodities very few mentally challenged people do find jobs that can earn them a living. When the scarcity of different basic commodities pushes them to the corner they start begging for food and money in streets. Others do find a way to survive by eating from the dustbin which contains food leftovers and expired drinks left by the normal people who throw away food while others go hungry.

Employers do not like anyone who has mental challenge near their place of work, mostly these people are discriminated and there is low likely hood of having them hired. Reasons behind it is because they pose a threat to other employees since some of these people are always violent and can hurt anyone. Secondly, they require high supervision in order to do their work smoothly and this becomes a nuisance to the employer.

There is need to build homes for these adults since they are brought together for one common goal. There is a necessity of putting them away from the street where they do face a lot of problems as rated. Lacks of basic commodities like enough food, water and shelter makes life unfair for them.

Skills which aids in survival are some of the few things that they do learn when put together in one home. They learn to sew different items and to make tables, chairs and so on which earns them a living. When these products are sold these homes do get monetary aid which helps to cater different needs and to pay the employees.

In conclusion we ought to be good members of the society by doing giving a helping hand to those who are in need. When we help the mentally disabled we shape their destiny in a way that is considered good by God. We should help without having in mind that the person you help will give a thanks in other way, the axe forgets but the tree recalls so goes the African idiom.




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