The influences due to the disability: IPA assessment

 IPA: Impact on Participation and Autonomy

In this assessment, we wanted to ask Sander a few questions about different aspects of his daily life. We wanted to clarify how the loss of his fingers influenced his participation and autonomy, and thus also his quality of life.

There are a few major things that we can conclude when looking back at the results of this assessment. First of, Sander explained that if he wants to go out with his bicycle, he is able to do that. But due to the loss of his fingers on his left hand, this does not happen optional. Like mentioned in the previous assessment and testings of prototypes, he wants to be able to do this in a more reliable way.

He also mentioned that due to the braking down of his car, it is very difficult to go shopping for groceries. At the moment he has to balance the shopping bags on each side of his steering wheel, or he has to be dependent on other people, which he doesn't always like.

Doing household chores isn't optional either, Sander often experiences that doing chores manually is not that easy. He also would've like a bigger garden but because of the unease he consciously chose for a smaller garden.

Because of  his function as team manager, Sander doesn't really experience a problem in the performance of his work. He enjoys the work that he is doing, but experiences some sort of fear when it ever has to come to changing his profession. He said that he's afraid that no other employer would employ him because of his disability.

Conclusion: 

The most important problems for Sander are not being able to perform household related activities and chores. And also his limited mobility when it comes down to his car that broke down and riding his bicycle.