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Enhancing Equitable Access to Assistive Technologies in Canada

25 Aug 2017

The views expressed in the dialogue summary are the views of the dialogue participants and should not be taken to represent the views of AGE-WELL NCE Inc., McMaster University’s Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative, McMaster University or the authors of the dialogue summary. [...] The dialogue was also designed to generate action by those who participate in the dialogue, and by those who review First, throughout the deliberations participants returned the dialogue summary and the video interviews with to the challenges posed by a lack of a consistent dialogue participants. [...] In relation to the first challenge, participants emphasized the lack of awareness of assistive technologies in the health system in terms of what is funded, among health professionals in terms of knowing what supports and technologies exist, and by the public in knowing where to go to gain access to needed assistive technologies. [...] In particular, participants spoke to the challenges that women with disabilities contend with and the need for a gendered analysis of the problems discussed in the brief. [...] Enhance access to information and streamline the consumer experience Participants generally agreed with the importance of the approach presented in the brief, expressing that there was lack of awareness about assistive technologies in the health system, and noting that this would be an easy place to begin to make changes in the short term.
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Hamilton, ON, CA

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