Devastating effect of cost-of-living crisis on disabled people revealed

A new report by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and Glasgow Disability Alliance paints a deeply concerning picture of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on disabled people. A new report published by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) and Glasgow Disability Alliance paints a deeply concerning picture of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on disabled people. The report presents the views of disabled people living in Glasgow, alongside a scoping review of emergent evidence from across the UK on how the crisis is impacting the lives, health, and wellbeing of disabled people. The crisis has worsened poverty and financial insecurity, making it increasingly difficult, and for some impossible, to live a healthy and reasonably enriched life. It is of great concern that for many, the crisis has created a struggle to meet basic costs including an inability to heat homes and going hungry or eating a nutritionally deficient diet. Being cold and going hungry was reported as directly compromising the management of health conditions, disrupting medication routines and worsening a range of symptoms, including pain management. Worryingly, being unable to afford to charge essential assistive equipment, such as powered wheelchairs, hoists, and nebulisers, was also reported.