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Disability: time for real change

Dinah S Reddihough and Bruce P Bonyhady
Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02212.x
Published online: 1 December 2008

To the Editor: With ageing and population growth, the number of people with disabilities is rising. By 2010, it is projected that 1.5 million Australians will have severe or profound limitations to core activity in the areas of self-care, mobility and/or communication.1


  • 1 Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
  • 2 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC.
  • 3 Yooralla, Melbourne, VIC.


Correspondence: dinah.reddihough@rch.org.au

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