Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People

Blog post:

Entrenching Invisibility and Creating Vulnerability: The Absence of Disability in the UK’s New Plan for Immigration (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Changing Vulnerabilities and COVID-19 Adherence: Older Refugees in Lebanon (ELRHA) [info] 

- Research project undertaken by Norwegian Refugee Council & American University of Beirut. See related questionnaire in English & Arabic and preprint on vaccine acceptance of older Syrian refugees.

A Claim to Dignity: Ageing on the Move - Regional assessment on the situation and needs of older persons on the move in the Americas (UNHCR & HelpAge, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related press release and news story. A Spanish version is also available.

COVID-19, Displacement & Older People in Afghanistan (Samuel Hall & HelpAge, Dec. 2020) [text]

Disability, Disasters and Displacement (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, March 2021) [text]

Disability, Displacement and Climate Change (UNHCR, IDMC & IDA, April 2021) [text]

Disability Prevalence and Impact: Syrian Arab Republic (Humanitarian Needs Assessment Programme, April 2021)

- HNAP has published several reports describing field research that collected data during Summer 2020, October 2020 and December 2020. 

"The Effect of Exercise Training for Refugee Wheelchair Users," International Journal of Disabilities, Sports and Health Sciences, vol. 4, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"Nine years of war and internal conflicts in Syria: a call for physical rehabilitation services," Disability & Society, vol. 36, no. 3 (2021) [free full-text]

Working with Older Persons in Forced Displacement (UNHCR & HelpAge, 2021) [text]

Multimedia:

Invisible Refugees: persons with disabilities and their right to refugee status, 5 May 2021 [info] [access]

- Follow the second link for a video recording.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People (2 March 2021)