The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's ...

RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THAT PERSON. WELL, IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MORE THAN 1700 CASES OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND DISABLED ADULTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY THE AGING AND DISABILITY COMMISSION ...

There is considerable information about the relation between alcohol abuse and the onset of a disability due to accidents and injuries while under the influence. For example, alcohol consumption is a ...

The government discovered 33 suspected cases of abuse against people with disabilities after conducting a full inspection of 1,507 residential facilities for people with disabilities nationwide. To ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is moving into its final phase and will report its findings in September. For the last four years the ...

-- Reposted from the online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report" The term disability is used regularly, although its definition remains somewhat elusive. Statistics Canada defines “disability ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GENEVA, Ill. — An investigation is underway after a resident at a center for people with disabilities was sexually abused, ...

NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Proposed federal budget cuts could hurt programs that protect the rights of people with disabilities and prevent abuse. Nancy Jensen remembers the years she spent at Kaufman ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In this series, we unpack what the commission’s 222 recommendations could ...