Many of the new ones are very expensive. The elderly can't afford them. They should not be treated as an equal problem, because they are not. The very isolation itself means that it is more expensive to maintain fundamental human rights out here. Communication Several participants at the meeting mentioned the difficulty of accessing telecommunications services.
Public transport is almost non-existent in country areas.
The government does have some transport schemes in place but if you have an elderly person or a person with a disability who needs to come in for a doctor's appointment, they may have 70km to come and no transport to get here. Disability services Services for disabled people are not readily available in country areas. There was also concern expressed about the readiness of schools to accept children with a disability. There is such a reluctance from the education system to take children with special needs into schools. When we pursued it for our son, there was an enormous amount of reluctance because they would have to adjust and modify their schools and their classrooms.