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Wellbeing & Fitness

Shielding stories: the impact on disabled people’s mental health

27/11/2020

Cropped artwork by disabled artist Tri Iva Fitriani showing a colour drawing of a girl with brown hair wearing a face mask with virus particles on it

Our writer Raya, a shielder since March, shares the stories of disabled people who have continued to isolate and how…

Wellbeing & Fitness

Shielding stories: the forgotten isolated who have been in ‘lockdown’ since March

13/11/2020

Covid-19 artwork showing how isolation feels

Writer Raya, who has been shielding since March, shares the stories of other disabled people who have stayed in their…

Lifestyle

58% of disabled and chronically ill people feel anxious about the easing of lockdown rules

13/07/2020

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Virus drawn in chalk on a white board with a home, two people keeping apart and medication around them

58% of people feel really anxious about the easing of lockdown restrictions, and 49% feel the same about the changes…

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