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Posted 12.10.2020
This is the third look at how the pandemic is affecting an estimated 13.7 million disabled people. Whilst everyone’s experience is different, and the term ‘disabled’ is a very broad one, at a time in which lockdown restrictions began to ease in parts of the UK, disabled adults experience was different from that of the wider population.
Their concerns about well-being and accessing healthcare were higher than among non-disabled people. Disabled people were more likely to go out to attend medical appointments or take care of others than non-disabled people were, and less likely to be socialising and eating out.
According to the report, disabled people more often than non-disabled people indicated that the coronavirus affected their life in terms of:
Disabled people less often than non-disabled people reported concerns about:
BBO is having a significant impact on individual lives, supporting people to increase their confidence, independence and achieve their employment aspirations.
See what our participants have to say in these case studies …