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Boon was diagnosed with Friedreich s Ataxia when he was 17. As the disease progressed it made walking and talking increasingly harder, and also affected his hearing. That’s where my people were: the creatives and the outspoken. But it was the welfare system, in part, that eventually forced me to leave. I worked for as long as I could as an administrator at the Ministry of Health, between 2015 and 2017, before my mental health became too bad to continue. At the time my degenerative neurological condition was progressing. A trusted friend in the disability community visited me a few weeks later and found that I’d been living off savings because I couldn’t face going back to Work and Income.
Thursday 29 April 2021, 04:12 PM Immediate involvement of disabled people is essential if the reform of disability governance is to be successful, says Disabled Persons Assembly chief executive Prudence Walker
“We knew the future of disability services hadn’t been figured out at all”
Disability advocates almost celebrated their minor role in the health
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Mike Potter, chief executive of Disability Connect - an Auckland-based resource centre - told The AM Show on Tuesday the findings weren t a surprise. It s a reality for disabled people that we re more lonely because we re more isolated. We tend to find it more difficult to get around, to be welcome and to be included within society and our communities.
He said while the weeks-long lockdowns of last year are a memory for some, many in the disabled community are still nervous about having to do it all over again. As soon as the Prime Minister makes an announcement that we re going into lockdown, if you ve got a disabled child in your care with an intellectual disability - they could be in their 20s or 30s - you immediately have to think about the care for tomorrow morning, you need to think about how you re going to tell them about this. they re going to come back and ask you again, again and again.
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