One In Five for Sunday 20 September 2009

On tonight's programme, Capital and Coast DHB mend fences with local disability advocates. And Arthritis New Zealand gets a big break from Dancing with the Stars

The relations between Health and Disability services have never been easy. Disability rights activists say that when disability issues get medicalised, people are likely to be treated as sick and in need of cure, rather than as people who have rights to full participation in society. And that when disabled people are sick, and in need of treatment health services don't cope well. The orthapaedic ward might be miles away from radiology, or a doctor's surgery might be up several flights of stairs - not good for mobility impaired people. Or in some cases, an assumption made that a disabled person doesn't want to be resuscitated. It's those kind of concerns that've convinced the board and management of Capital and Coast DHB's regional hospital they need expert advice

Along with Stefano, she danced herself into the top four couples of this year's Dancing with the Stars extravaganza. That's star of stage and screen Geraldine Brophy. And in the process, the couple netted Geraldine Brophy's nominated charity, Arthritis New Zealand about twenty five thousand dollars. And now, she's agreed to be the face of Arthritis New Zealand's 2009 appeal. While the twenty five thousand dollars raised by Dancing with the Stars isn't the full amount, thanks to telecommunication and other service fees, Geraldine Brophy says that never phased her.