physical and mental health and emotional well-being protection from abuse and neglect education, training and recreation domestic, family and personal relationships. (Source: Wales. Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, p. 13)
Assistive Technology is any device that helps a less able person do something that more able people can already do. (Source: AZO Robotics, 2016)
Assistive Technology (AT) is any product or service designed to enable independence for disabled and older people. (Source: King’s Fund, 2001)
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A recent court decision has provided a definition of what is meant by the term ‘deprivation of liberty’. A deprivation of liberty occurs when ‘the person is under continuous supervision and control and is not free to leave, and the person lacks capacity to consent to these arrangements’. (Source: Alzheimer’s Society, 2016)