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. It's just a shame that the driving force of technology is biased towards able-bodied and mobile people for obvious profit reasons.
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Profit drives technology. No way around it.
It is a far greater shame when institutions, publicly funded or private, allow abuse (and usually they are aware of it on some level and ignore it due to lack of staff, legal issues involved with terminating employees etc.) and still maintain public approval and/or funding.
Worse than that are the relatives, friends, or aware individuals who do nothing but hide their heads in the sand. And those who block/oppose social advances in health, welfare, standards of living for the disadvantaged in any category because it might raise their taxes.
Last but not least are institutions such as the arthritus society (name your country) who seem to be remarkably stagnant in any sort of progressive activity. I am singling them out because I cannot think of another correct name at present, but the options provided for those who are crippled, chronically ill, blind etc. seem to me well rooted in the last century and expensive to boot.
Helen