'I was dispensable': COVID-19 pushing people who feel like 'collateral damage' to the brink, Q+A hears
Increasing feelings of loneliness during the coronavirus pandemic is universal, but some say the experience has made them feel "dispensable", compounding a sense of isolation and exacerbating mental health issues.
Rosemary Kayess, associate director of the Disability Innovation Institute at the University of NSW, was speaking on Monday as a member of a Q+A panel that also included radio personality Gus Worland, author Sarah Wilson, psychologist Hugh Mackay and the scientific chair of Ending Loneliness Together, Michelle Lim.
As the panel discussed social fragmentation, Ms Kayess agreed it could lead to loneliness and said those living with a disability were highly exposed to it.
"That specific [physical] segregation is structurally embedded for people with disability, the way they're segregated in education, the way they're segregated in terms of residential care and services," Ms Kayess said.
"And it's that structural segregation that disconnects them and really does see them as different."
Reporting by Paul Johnson.
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