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[CampsieGlamper]

Practice manager, covering reception for a week and I'm astonished by the number of times a person with disabilities comes to an appointment with a carer, and the carer repeatedly answers for them. I'm not talking non verbal disabilities.
I've brought him for his doctors appointment
Hello, what as you name?
His name's Joe
What's your date of birth, Joe?
His date of birth is. .....
And who are you seeing?
He's seeing doctor No.

Common sense with people's dignity and training since the 1980s for staff, but surely the carers realise this is demeaning for the person with disabilities?
Or am I being a Pc wokey joke?

No you are not. It's something I notice when out and about with my elderly mother. I'm always aware of the people who talk to her and those that talk to me. I do sometimes have to stop myself answering for her but am getting better and referring queries to her. Part of the problem is that in fact she sometimes finds the modern world bewildering and would happily leave me to deal with everything but I think it's important that she keeps having an input.

Absolutely not. It’s really sad to hear.

I think it is much more common than people realise.

HCP here I agree drives me crazy. I have physically placed myself between patient and carer looking directly at patient who starts to answer (sometimes with an appropriate processing delay) and the carer jumps in and talks over the patient urgh

My late partner had a physical disability and it beggared belief sometimes. Several times he'd pay for something in a shop (with his own money, from his own wallet, with his own hands) and the cashier would offer the change back to me.