The image of care

How realistic are images that protray care in the UK? If a newspaper, magazine or design agency wants to show, for instance, the concept of an adult wit a learning disability living independently in the community, there are not many options available. The main problem is that mainstream libraries assume they know what clients want, but they do not know how to supply the right images.
We are constantly told that specialist image libraries are in volgue. But if so, how come there is so little competition to drive peices down? And how come the images do not reflect the concept of care as experienced by practitioners and service users?

This is something I took this weekend

Do you care about using ‘politically correct’ phrases for different disabilities? Does it matter to you whether someone is referred to as ‘blind’ or should that be ‘visually impaired’? Let’s get some views and don’t be afraid to be controversial.

Hello and welcome to the Careimages blog. The idea of this is that we will let you know all about the goings on behind the scenes here. Just as importantly you can add comments, and we may open it up to more general discussion on care and social issues.