2.2 Age
Of the people whose age was recorded, the majority receiving disability advocacy services are aged 25-64 (figure 4).
People receiving disability advocacy services aged under 65 are more prevalent than their proportion in the population of people with disability. Older people with disability aged 65 or over are less often recorded as receiving disability advocacy services than the proportion of this group among people with disability.
We can speculate that the low number of people with disability aged 65 or over may be due to them receiving services from the aged care service system, or because they approach organisations advocating for older people in addition to disability advocacy services. They may also not identify as having a disability, and may associate their impairments with the ageing process.
There is a noticeable increase in the number of young people aged 15-24 receiving disability advocacy services in the final three quarters of the data series (figure 5). This is only three quarters of data, and additional data will be required to determine if this is a continuing trend.
