You can’t build a fair NDIS by gutting the women who hold it up

"Occupational therapy is one of those quietly essential professions. We’re not glamorous, we don’t get headlines, and we definitely don’t make a fuss. We just turn up in homes, hospitals, schools, and aged care facilities and help people recover from trauma, illness, injury, and loss of function. We are the profession that gets people dressed, bathed, out of bed, and back into life.

We are also, not coincidentally, a workforce made up of approximately 90 per cent women."

If the NDIA is serious about reform, it’s time to stop making decisions in a vacuum. Give occupational therapists a seat at the table, writes ActivOT Founder, Helen Whait. You can read the original article published by InDaily SA here.