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Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson, Joanne Arciuli, Eric Emerson, Sally Robinson, Sally Chance, Gerry Redmond   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elder abuse and the association with ear or hearing diseases in advanced age: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Prell T, Wagner A, Schönenberg A, Heimrich KG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Experience of elders on elder abuse

IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science, 2016
Ms. Aysha K, Ms. Helen Alosious, Ms. Ditty Davis, Ms.Ayisha Parveen, Mrs.Benazeera, Lecturer   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerated Brain Atrophy in Epilepsy: A Prospective Population‐Based Study

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Previous longitudinal neuroimaging studies suggest that epilepsy is a progressive disorder. To date, these findings have relied largely on populations from tertiary centers, resulting in ascertainment bias, as severely affected individuals are more likely to be rescanned.
Marian Galovic, Rebecca S. N. Liu, Alex D. Everitt, Robert Terziev, Louis Lemieux, Matthias J. Koepp, John S. Duncan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abuse: Elder Abuse

, 2015
Michael Gordon, Selynne Guo, Heather B. Hogan   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Cortical Thickness and White Matter Surface Morphology in Tourette Syndrome: A Cohort Study

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective To examine cortical thickness and white matter surface morphology in a large sample of individuals with Tourette syndrome (TS) and neurotypical controls across the lifespan, and to assess associations with symptom severity, comorbidities, and medication use.
Sahar Delavari, Adam C. Frank, Ravi Bansal, Flora M. Vaccarino, Robert A. King, Paul Lombroso, Lawrence Scahill, James F. Leckman, Bradley S. Peterson   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source