Mum, who is in her 80s, showed me the YouTube video - watch this, she said. Inwardly, I groaned: Mum was showing me independent people battling the odds.
But what I was seeing were people with severe disabilities, living alone, in unhygienic and inaccessible habitation, crawling or bottom-shuffling in their daily activities.
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