Wake up, politicians! Disabled people rely on social care too – not just older people | Frances Ryan
by Frances Ryan from on (#4V0XF)
Millions of people with disabilities need help to get out of bed, wash and go to the toilet. Their needs must not be ignored in this election
I can't help but wonder what the social care equivalent of the well-worn NHS general election photo op would be. Instead of health secretaries putting on scrubs and a party leader looking sympathetic next to a patient's bedside, perhaps Boris Johnson would like to wait with a paraplegic as she soils herself in her front room because she has no assistant to help her get to the toilet.
This is not so much a public policy issue as a full-blown humanitarian crisis
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