Disability-Inclusive Healthcare: Access, Autonomy, and Equal Care
Disability-inclusive healthcare provides accessible, respectful, equitable care while supporting communication, consent, privacy, autonomy, and sexual and reproductive health.
Disability-inclusive healthcare provides accessible, respectful, equitable care while supporting communication, consent, privacy, autonomy, and sexual and reproductive health.
Desexualization of disability is the assumption that disabled people are asexual, undesirable, or incapable of relationships, intimacy, and sexual autonomy.
Infantilization of disabled adults means treating disabled adults as childlike or incapable, often limiting autonomy, privacy, relationships, consent, and personal decision-making.
Sexual accessibility means removing physical, communication, educational, healthcare, and privacy barriers that can limit sexual autonomy and sexual well-being.
Body autonomy for disabled people means having meaningful control over decisions involving touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and personal assistance.
Supported decision-making helps people understand information, consider options, communicate preferences, and make their own choices with appropriate assistance.
Capacity to consent is the ability to understand relevant information, make a voluntary decision, and communicate agreement or refusal in a particular situation.
Intellectual disability and sexuality explores consent, relationships, sexual health, identity, accessible education, safeguarding, and sexual autonomy.
Disability can affect physical, sensory, intellectual, developmental, or neurological functioning and may interact with accessibility, health, relationships, autonomy, and sexuality.
Disability and sexuality explores how disability can interact with desire, intimacy, relationships, sexual function, identity, consent, and access to sexual healthcare.