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Are care options offered to the physically impaired enabling or disabling?

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Are care options offered to the physically impaired enabling or disabling?

Martyn Butcher

17 September 2012

The status of disabled people within UK society has recently seen major advances with the support of the government through significant changes in statute (Disability Discrimination Act, 1995; The Equality Act, 2010) and heightened media presence, from events as diverse as the Paralympic Games to the plight of the injured from military conflict.

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