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  Let’s heed the warnings from aged care. We must act now to avert a COVID-19 crisis in disability care

  by: Olumayowa Omotoso news 0 2021-08-06 08:17:47

  In Victoria there are nearly 80 active COVID-19 cases linked to more than 50 disability accommodation sites. At least two people have died. These don’t sound like big numbers in the context of Victoria’s second wave, and particularly when we compare it to the COVID-19 crisis in residential aged care. But similarities between residential disability care and aged care […]

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  ‘I’m scared’: parents of children with disability struggle to get the basics during coronavirus

  by: Olumayowa Omotoso news 0 2021-08-06 08:17:44

  COVID-19 has had a significant impact on all Australians, but there are very good reasons why the impact might be more keenly felt by people with disability and their carers. Our new research on behalf of Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) provides insight into these issues, capturing the impacts at the height of the […]

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  Raising the bar on disability care

  by: Olumayowa Omotoso news 0 2021-08-06 08:12:14

  Encouraging paid workers to employ the ‘right kind’ of respectful personal relationship with young people with disability will lift standards in the sector, experts say. With good quality relationships, children and young adults with cognitive disability feel “valued, respected and cared about” in their daily lives and, in turn, give carers more job satisfaction and self-respect, international researchers say […]

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  Disability and COVID-19: A deadly virus made worse by discrimination

  by: Olumayowa Omotoso news 0 2021-08-06 08:09:23

  The coronavirus crisis has exposed existing inequalities in the UK and “excluded” disabled people from society, campaigners have warned. As the UK grapples to manage the crisis amid fears of a second wave across Europe, charities have said that disabled people are being discriminated against, leaving them vulnerable to the virus. The statistics are stark. Disabled women […]

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