Half a million disabled New Zealanders need more assistance
Disability advocates say more needs to be done to help the nearly one million Kiwis who live with a disability.
New data from Stats NZ showed one in six New Zealanders are disabled — close to 10% of children (around 98,000) and more than 750,000 adults.
It also found that nearly half a million people with disabilities needed more care in at least one aspect of their lives.
These unmet needs included support, reasonable accommodations to allow a person to participate equally, medical care, and home modifications and equipment.
The biggest group with unmet needs was disabled school students, totalling around 51%.
These needs included requiring a teacher aide, health professional, or technology to help with school work.
As far as I am concerned, a decent society does everything in its power to make the life of the disabled as fruitful as possible.
There but for the grace of God go I.
I have enough difficulty getting around as an able bodied person, losing my sight, hearing or ability to walk would be unbearable!
To suffer from an illness or disability – these people are the true fucking heroes!
Going about their life with a disability or illness the roulette of genetics has given them is difficult enough, dealing with a toxic Bureaucracy who exist solely to make any welfare as difficult as possible to obtain adds insult to injury.
WHY, I say WHY destroy these people’s hopes and aspirations by taking the service provision and placing it inside MSD!!!
MSD are without a doubt the most cruel bureaucracy in NZ, they have long standing brutal methods in place to make the process of service provision as hateful and awful as possible so people stop asking for help.
THAT WAS WHY we had a department set up just for the disabled so that they could bypass the cruelty of MSD, and why is this happening?
Because the needs of the disabled community require more funding.
National see any public spending now as wrong because they need to find the money for the borrowed tax cuts and the $2.9billion
We have taken from the disabled, from beneficiaries, from Māori, from worker, from renters and the environment while manufacturing a crisi in public health – we have done all of this to give the richest tax cuts.
What the fuck have we become New Zealand?
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Looking after people and caring about others, having empathy, providing opportunities and quality of life etc. – woke rubbish – DEI nonsense! The disabled need to learn how to make marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag.
Health under National is fucked. Bullying behavior is almost a right wing policy…
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/12/health-nz-staff-lay-grievances-against-levys-razor-gang/
The fact that there is only one comment so far, about this item, is also doing the disabled a disservice.
We’re all very noisy about the easy stuff, like school lunches but nothing from Zelda, or Btf, or even Trevor who has a little more sense than the first two.
Do you not want to express your disdain for disabled people, Zelda? Surely, they fit your definition of lazy and ungrateful. Or have you decided to be discreet and not comment on things you don’t understand, for a change.
I know if Btf reads this he’ll bite and say something erudite like, ‘How silly!’ or ‘Pathetic’.
I apologise to him if he’s disabled and spends all day looking at TDB because he’s house bound.
We never know when our lives will be overturned by an accident if we aren’t born disabled. Brain injuries are more common than cancer, says TV3 news. Brain injuries happen mainly to young people. Let’s be grateful that most of us aren’t affected by disability or long-term injury and show some compassion to those who aren’t so lucky.
The definition of disabled is obviously very wide. 1 in 6 New Zealanders seems fatuous. Perhaps if the government concentrated on people who really need assistance there wouldn’t be a problem.
more crackers and dip snowflake fuckery from this POS government