Disability, communication, and life itself in the COVID-19 pandemic

Goggin, Gerard; Ellis, Katie

doi:10.1080/14461242.2020.1784020

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“…However, measures associated to the pandemic, such as social isolation or generalized use of face masks, might have important social impacts on these groups. 44 , 45 Therefore, more studies are needed to address these questions, and it is urgent that we get more insight on the experience of these marginalized but prevalent subgroups of the population, to improve policies and procedures and to reduce potential inequality in future crisis management.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on people with physical disabilities: A rapid review

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Fortin-Bédard

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et al. 2021

Disability and Health Journal

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic changes in the lives of the general population. People with physical disabilities, who commonly encounter daily challenges such as barriers to community mobility, reduced access to healthcare services and higher risk of suffering from depression, may face additional challenges in the context of the pandemic. Objective This study aims to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated isolation and protective measures, among people with physical disabilities. Methods A rapid review of the published literature was conducted on August 10, 2020 through a search in six online databases to synthesize results from original studies regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with physical disabilities. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health was used to describe the population and the personal and environmental factors with a unified and standard health language. Results Eleven records were extracted from 1621 individual papers retrieved from the search strategy. Various impacts on daily functioning such as a decrease in access to healthcare have been noted during the pandemic. Changes in social and lifestyle habits, mood changes and decreased levels of physical activity were also noted. Conclusions Our results highlighted the lack of early research about the impacts of COVID-19 experienced by people with physical disabilities. Future studies should focus on specific consequences and needs of this vulnerable population to ensure their inclusion in public health recommendations and consideration by policy makers.

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Impact of COVID-19 on people with physical disabilities: A rapid review

Lebrasseur

Fortin-Bédard

Lettre

et al. 2021

Disability and Health Journal

210

138

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“…Save Lives," do not mean anything for people with disabilities because for them staying at home is a default position. 38…”

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Mobilizing Disability Studies

Matereke

2020

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Despite how the fields of mobility and disability studies have vastly contributed to our understanding of our lifeworld, the two, however, share asymmetric acknowledgement of each other. Mobility recurs as an aspiration for those with a disability yet disability tends to be ignored or inadequately dealt with in mobility studies. This article seeks to achieve two main objectives: first, to discuss how and what the journal has achieved over the years; and, second, to highlight that the denial of mobility is a negation of what it means to be human. Overall, the article seeks to deploy a critical intervention required for mobility studies to return the gesture to disability studies in equal magnitude. By situating the discussion within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, this article argues that at the interface of mobility and disability lies a politics of possibility for people with disabilities in their struggles for equal access and full citizenship.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic, and the government measures taken to address it, intersect with existing inequalities to create cascades of disadvantage across multiple domains, including health care, education, and employment. Government responses impact on disabled people’s ability to protect against the pandemic, to mitigate the effects of social distancing measures, to buffer against the ensuing financial downturn, and to navigate the disruption in the provision of general and specialist health services, including in their access to COVID-19-related health services [ 3 , 4 ].…”

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“…During the pandemic, ‘disablism’, defined as those discourses and practices that exclude, discriminate against, and oppress disabled people– has put disabled people at risk, pointing to a ‘disvaluing’ of their lives [ 5 ]. This is exemplified through, for example, medical rationing and a lack of accessible information [ 4 ]. Disabled people are asked to resort to self-protection, shielding from COVID-19 – often without access to resources to support this – a practice which individualises the responsibility for protection against COVID-19, shifting it away from the state to individual actors [ 6 ].…”

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“…Even when such shielding is possible, it has unintended consequences, ranging from the loss of informal-yet-necessary social support networks, to loneliness and food insecurity, exacerbating pre-existing inequities [ 7 ]. This discourse of responsibilisation fails to recognise that social privileges – in the form of social capital, education, and income – are not equally distributed among the population, a fact which has become even more evident in the current context [ 4 ].…”

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