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  In a properly equal and egalitarian society there would be no stigma - every individual would be valued as an individual with individual aspirations and needs - including housing. This would make it easier to make equal demands on people within their limitations and individual skills and abilities. The words we use to describe things impacts hugely on how we see the people using them, and on our responses to those people. And that informs their response to the society in which they live.
  
  The kind of social mentality that made it acceptable across the UK to build enormous multi-bed residential homes named after dead councillors a few years ago in an apparent endorsement of the warehousing of our elders led to a real brake on social development and equality. Hopefully we now realise how important it is for people to control and manage their own lives, whatever their age or abilities. There are still too many nursing homes in which the people living there never feel the rain or the wind on their faces because there are too few staff to enable them to go out and the lack of will to buy or use the right equipment to promote and encouirage independence. And this is apparently ok?

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