Disability: time for real change

Reddihough, Dinah S; Bonyhady, Bruce P

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02212.x

To the Editor: With ageing and population growth, the number of people with disabilities is rising. By 2010, it is projected that 1.5 million Australians will have severe or profound limitations to core activity in the areas of self-care, mobility and/or communication.1

1 Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
2 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC.
3 Yooralla, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: dinah.reddihough@rch.org.au

1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Current and future demand for specialist disability services. Canberra: AIHW, 2007. (AIHW Cat. No. DIS 50.) http://www.ncid.org.au/cstdaalliance/Documents/2007%20-%20unmet%20need%20 report.pdf (accessed Nov 2008).
2. United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 31/123. International Year of Disabled Persons. 16 Dec 1976. http://www.un-documents.net/a31r123.htm (accessed Nov 2008).
3. Bonyhady BP, Sykes H. Disability reform: from crisis welfare to a planned insurance model. April 2008. http://www.yooralla.com.au/pdf/disabilityreform2020.pdf (accessed Apr 2008).

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