Author: homealonesimon

Interested in Transport and Currency (UK)

Volunteers Week

IT is a sight to behold to see many wondaful people celebrating their contribution as volunteers.

Our organisation is mindful of the value attached to engaging in charitable work where they make a difference to themselves and others.

A round of applause is necessary for all those who willingly give their precious time for the greater good of communities globally.

Simon, Billy & Graham

Understanding the UK digital phone switchover 2025

Introduction

The UK is moving away from the old copper telephone Telephones network to a new digital telephone system that uses the internet. This change has already begun and is due to be complete by December 2025. You may hear this process referred to as the ‘Digital Switchover’ and the new digital phone service as ‘Digital Voice’ (BT), Sky Voice, Talk Talk Voice or VoIP ‘Voice over Internet Protocol’.

For those concerned about Telecare/Alarms please go to following link Age UK

https://personalalarms.ageco.co.uk/blogs/remaining-independent/will-personal-alarm-work-after-digital-telephone-switchover

Gaming Controller for disabled people

The Proteus Controller All-in-One Kit allows gamers to build their own way to play. The unique modular video game controller kit features innovative ‘snap and play’ parts that easily connect together and comes with everything that gamers need to play their favorite Xbox and PC games right out of the box. With this one kit, players can build over 100 million traditional and custom configuration and LED lighting variations. Here is the link: https://www.byowave.com/

Doing Digital Inclusion: Disability handbook

The Social Model of Disability is the framework from which we look at the issues about accessing digital support. The model sates: “The social model of disability says that disability is caused by how society is organised, rather than by a person’s impairment or difference. It looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life choices for disabled people”.

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Breaking Down Barriers: How Compounding Inequalities Impact Access to Digital Health Services

A third of people who are offline find that the NHS is one of the most difficult organisations to interact with (Lloyds, 2022). In addition, those who are offline are twice as likely to indicate a health condition compared to those who are online (Lloyds, 2023).

These statistics tell us that not only do those who are digitally excluded struggle to interact with health services, they are also more likely to need to.

This overlap between digital exclusion and access to health-care has been well researched by member organisations within the VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) Health and Wellbeing Alliance, a partnership between voluntary sector representatives and the health and care system focused on improving services for communities. Our recent ‘Designing For Digital Inclusion in Healthcare’ seminar series was a project supported by the alliance, with the aim of drawing together this research and learning, to help reduce barriers to accessing health care.https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/what-we-do/news/compounding-inequalities-in-accessing-digital-health-services/?fbclid=IwAR1jF9yfb9ziCsQ4XTuv0s8C43TVfMm8mBcFu-kc5zcnFw5804XrUbrKwr8