Community development work integrates theory and practice.Identify a social problem in Australia today and present relevant theories and principles of community development which apply to this...

Ageing or living with a disability
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Introduction
The term "disability" is broad and covers impairments, activity restrictions, and participation restrictions.
Analysis of data from disability services shows an increasing trend in the number and proportion of people aged 45–64 with impairments. According to Kämpfen et al. (2018), the demographic growth rate for Australians aged 80 and above will be the highest.
Even while ageing may be seen as a societal triumph, it presents challenges for health care and sustaining optimum functioning for this population that is always growing (Ordway,2020).
The nation has a difficulty as the number of senior Australians with impairments rises. This new trend has been influenced by the general population's growing life expectancy as well as recent advancements in medicine, physiotherapy, and disability evaluation (Kämpfen et al., 2018).
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has written extensively on the wider demographic shift, but little has been said about how it will affect people with disabilities and how to help them. The terms "impairment," "activity restriction," and "participation limitation" all refer to difficulties that people with impairments have while engaging in many aspects of everyday life (Ordway,2020).
Therefore, disability is a complex phenomena that reflects the interaction between a person's physical traits and the social traits of the society in which they reside.
Daily living of Activity
ADLs include things like eating, taking a bath, getting dressed, and using the bathroom.
IADLs, or instrumental activities of daily living, include chores like housecleaning, shopping, managing money, taking care of prescription drugs, climbing stairs, utilising public transit, and walking.
They may be affected by cognitive impairment (Mitzner et al,2018).
Frailty is a disorder that affects many different bodily systems and is common in the elderly. It is characterised by a generalised reduction in physiological reserves. Frailty is characterised by an increased propensity to damage, a decreased ability to withstand internal and external pressures, and a decreased capacity to maintain...