- Acne
- Acne is a skin condition that causes spots. Most people affected by acne are aged between 12 and 25. However, men and women in their 30s and 40s can also suffer. There are many treatments available to help deal with the condition.
Not in it's self a disability but the side effects could be classified if significant disfigurment is caused and is perminent.
- Allergy
- Reaction of the body's immune system to a foreign substance (eg, pollen, animal dander, etc.). When the eyes are affected, the most common symptoms are redness, itching, chemosis, tearing, swollen eyelids and stickiness. Read more about allergies and the eyes.
- Amanda Green
- NDPA Membership Secretary September 2004 - December 2005
- Anna Ludlow
- The NDPA Treasurer from September 2004 - September 2006
NDPA Members Secretary September 2006 -
- Blindness
- A condition which causes the loss of sight. Total loss of sight is not necesary to be classed as blind.
The condition can be caused by many trigers.
- Cancer
- The building blocks of the body are tiny cells, which normally repair and reproduce in a controlled process. With cancer, this process goes wrong and cells can divide and grow in an uncontrolled way, causing a lump - a tumour - on or within the part of the body affected. If this tumour contains cells that are able to invade neighbouring tissues or organs, it is known as malignant. If the tumour does not do this, it is termed benign. There are about 200 different types of cancer and one in three people in the UK will get some form of cancer at some time in their lives.
There are many different types of which some are listed below.
Cancer - bladder
Cancer - blood (leukaemia)
Cancer - bowel
Cancer - brain
Cancer - breast
Cancer - breast lumps
Cancer - cervical
Cancer - cervical screening
Cancer - chemotherapy
Cancer - lung
Cancer - mouth
Cancer - ovarian
Cancer - prostate
Cancer - skin
Cancer - stomach
Cancer - testicular
All these conditions would be considered life threatening so would be covered by the DDA.
- Carol Smith
- NDPA Members Secretary December 2005 - September 2006
- Chris Taylor
- NDPA Vice-Chair September 2004 -
- CMS
- Content Management System
- DDA
- Disability Discrimination Act 1985 - See Legislation page.
- Depression
- Everyone experiences some sort of unhappiness at some point in their lives and most people feel "down" from time to time. However, this unhappiness can develop into a depressive illness. This is a real illness that often goes unrecognised, yet about 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men get depression serious enough to need treating at some point in their lives. Children and teenagers can also be affected by depression.2
What is depression?
Someone is said to be suffering from depression when their feelings:
* don't go away quickly
* are so bad that they interfere with everyday life
There are different types of depression which are explained below.
Mild depression
People that get depressed due to stresses in life, such as the break-up of a relationship or a bereavement, may get mild depression.1 Mild depression does not usually stop a person leading their daily life but makes everything harder to do and seem less worthwhile.
Major depression
If a person feels depressed or uninterested in doing anything nearly every day for at least two weeks, they may have major depression. There may be several other symptoms, including changes in sleep, appetite and concentration. Major depression is also called clinical depression or unipolar depression.
Dysthymia
This is a less severe depressive illness that lasts at least two years. Some people with dysthymia have episodes of major depression as well as the low-grade depression. This is called double depression.
Bipolar disorder
This is a type of depression in which a person swings between high and low moods. This is also sometimes called manic depression.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
SAD is a condition where a person gets big mood swings in different seasons of the year.2 For more information, please see the separate BUPA factsheet:
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Postnatal depression
Some women have postnatal depression soon after childbirth.
- Diabetes
- Diabetes mellitus is a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (elevated blood sugar levels), especially after eating. All types of diabetes mellitus share similar symptoms and complications at advanced stages. Hyperglycemia itself can lead to dehydration and ketoacidosis.
- Disability
- a person has a disability for the purposes of the DDA if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
- Dyslexia
- Learning disability affecting reading ability. Persons with dyslexia may have difficulty remembering, recognizing, and or reversing written letters, numbers, and words, might read backwards, and have poor handwriting.
- Dyspraxia
- Dyspraxia is a life long developmental co-ordination disorder that is more common in males than in females, and has been believed to affect 8-10% of all children (Dyspraxia Trust, 1991). Ripley, Daines and Barrett state that 'Developmental dyspraxia is difficulty getting our bodies to do what we want when we want them to do it', and that this difficulty can be considered significant when it interferes with the normal range of activities expected for a child of their age.
