Disaster planning for people with disability matters. We perpetuate inequality with every step we don’t take, and risk entrenching disadvantage. And if you make things inclusive for people with disability, you tend to make it inclusive for large swathes of groups also at risk in emergencies, including older people, socially disconnected people and others. Many birds, one stone.
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- Emergency management, Inclusion and access
- Author:
- Michelle Villeneuve
- Source:
- The Conversation
- Date published:
- Mon 11th Jan, 2021