What Challenges A Disabled Person Faces In Melbourne?

People with disabilities face many challenges in life, such as ignorance by society, segregation, isolation, poverty, pity, and charity. Physically disabled somehow manage with the support of tools while who are having extreme condition suffers a lot. Such as mental illness, blindness, hearing impairment, and locomotor disability, so they don’t go public places. They don’t have the rights to get what a non-disabled person can have, like education and employment.

In Australia, disabled people face many issues and are deprived of economic, social, cultural, and developmental rights so that Specialist Disability Accommodation Melbourne can help them. People lack awareness, and ignorance makes them fail to recognize the human rights of disabled persons.

People with disabilities

• According to the report, around 40 percent that is 6.8 million Australians (18 years or older), have a disability or long-term health condition.

• 87 percent of disabled persons are restricted in carrying out at least one everyday activity like mobility, communication or self-care.

• Disability ratio is increasing with age like 7 percent of children aged under 15, then 15% of age 15-64 years and 53% aged people of 65 years report disability.

Challenges disabled people face

-Disabled people suffer from poverty, live in poor quality or insecure housing, low level of education, are isolated socially, and hardly take part in community life.

-People who suffer mental health issues suffer extreme conditions with no quality of life and reduced productivity.

They hardly employment as Australia ranks lowest for relative income for disables and their workforce is around 54 percent compared to 83 percent of normal people.

-Young disabled imprisoned six times more than a normal young person.

-It was reported 1.2 million people say that public transport isn’t easy to use for disabled persons in Australia.

-They suffer sexual assault like 90 percent of women with intellectual disability have been sexually abused.

Positive developments

With the new positive developments, it has been seen that disabled children get admissions in school and participate in large numbers. Now 94 percent of disabled people live in private residences, 74 percent live with others, and 20 percent live alone and have their residence comparatively people without disability.

Conclusion

Disability Housing Investment Melbourne provides dwellings to deserving and disabled people to live better lives with no deprivation of rights.It’s their human right to treat them with good behavior and be helpful to them.

Published by Empowered Liveability

Empowered Liveability is one of the first companies in Australia to provide Specialist Disability Accommodation in Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane that are compliant with the current NDIS regulations. Empowered Liveability offer luxurious brand new homes for people with disability to live in at little to no charge. These houses are designed for both High Physical Support needs and Improved Liveability with a separate room for a support workers. To get more details, you can contact us at 1300 974 912, send us an E-mail: admin@empoweredliveability.com.au, or visit our office at 567 High Street, Preston VIC, 3072.

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