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A call for disability inclusion that must be heeded
Context:
There needs to be a focus on solutions that enhance the activities of daily life and the quality of life for the disabled.
Rethinking Rehabilitation Services
- Rehabilitation Awareness and Design: The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies a vast global need for rehabilitation services, reaching 41 billion individuals. Despite a 63% increase in demand from 1990 to 2019, rehabilitation is often overlooked.
- Professional Empowerment: Addressing the continuum between neurology and psychiatry, professionals beyond doctors and nurses are essential. Physical and occupational therapists, speech therapists, and caregivers play crucial roles.
- Multidisciplinary Paradigms: Building awareness that disability can be treated, and in some cases, reversed, is pivotal for individual and societal well-being.
Scientific Advances in Neuropsychiatry
- Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS): Scientific advances in neuropsychiatry offer promising treatment options. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) procedures, such as Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and Functional Magnetic Stimulation (FMS), prove effective for various conditions.
- Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES): Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES) emerges as a portable and bedside treatment. Its subtypes, including direct current, alternate current, and random noise, show success in improving memory, cognition, mood, behavior, anxiety, tremors, confusion, delirium, and sleep disorders.
- Post-COVID-19 Era Innovations: In the post-COVID-19 era, transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (tA-VNS) gains importance for long COVID-19 symptoms.
Global Collaboration for Disability Inclusion
- United Nations' Call for Inclusion: The United Nations emphasizes disability inclusion as a central aspect of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With one billion people with disabilities worldwide, collaboration among governments, public and private sectors is crucial.
- Vulnerability and Crisis: Persons with disabilities, particularly in developing countries, face exclusion and neglect, especially during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Accessible and Equitable World: Collaboration is essential to create an accessible and equitable world. Governments, public and private sectors must work together to implement innovative solutions that consider the needs of persons with disabilities.
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