Older First Nations people with disability experience a major policy and service gap at the intersection of disability, ageing, health and housing. Nearly half of First Nations people aged 55 and over live with disability (Avery & ABS 2025). No national dataset adequately connects Indigeneity, disability and age, and current systems respond to only one part of this experience at a time: a disability system with an age cutoff, an aged care system with limited disability competence, a health system that is often not culturally safe, and a housing system that is frequently inaccessible.
