The threadbare social care system is leaving disabled people trapped in their homes, in some cases waiting 14 hours without access to their toilet. Or the young disabled adults threatened with being forced out of their family homes and into care homes for the elderly. Invest in accessible homes, care packages and benefits, and NHS bills go down and tax revenue up. The poignancy of this is all the greater considering we have largely been here before: generations had to fight for the disability rights that are now being carelessly stripped away. • Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist and author of Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People, which is out on Tuesday 11 June (Verso)

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 15:55 UTC