As an autistic, mentally ill, transgender person with disability, Pippin Latham shares some experiences receiving medical care in hospital.
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Tag: disability rights (page 12)
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I used to know and love, my mind
Musician and writer, Heidi Everett, shares her experiences of psychotropic medications and hospital admission.
5 isolation challenges of a COVID-19 high-risker
As someone at high-risk of dying from the virus (aka ‘high-risker’), I’m over here fighting for my rights to information, healthcare, supplies and to have a say, writes Carlie Park.
Congregate Living is a Public Health Concern
The spread of the COVID-19 in congregate living situations like aged care facilities, and now in a Melbourne group home, really emphasises the need for people with disability to be supported to live independently. People who live in group homes…
Fighting for our rights – the UN delegation
A number of PWDA staff, including our former Co-CEO, are in Geneva this week to support seven people with disability who were chosen as delegates to give evidence to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…