The lived experience of receiving services as a National Disability Insurance Scheme participant in a rural area: Challenges of choice and control.

Objective: To explore the lived experience of people with a physical disability residing in a rural area and receiving services under the NDIS.

Setting: Rural areas of New South Wales classified as Modified Monash Categories 3-7.

Participants: Semistructured interviews were conducted with seven purposively sampled participants who self-identified as having a physical disability, were receiving NDIS funding and lived in a rural area of NSW.

Lived experience of parents and carers of people receiving services in rural areas under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experience of parenting or caring for a person with a disability receiving services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme in rural Australia.

Design: Qualitative study guided by the phenomenology of practice.

Setting: Rural areas of New South Wales (MM 3-7).

Powerless facing the wave of change: the lived experience of providing services in rural areas under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Introduction: Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is the catalyst for a significant shift in the delivery of disability services to people with a disability and their families, including those residing in rural and remote parts of Australia. Allied health services in rural areas of Australia are often limited, existing services are characterised as being of a generalist nature and demand for services often exceeds service capacity. This shift in the delivery of disability services with the rollout of NDIS could have a poignant impact on the rurally based allied health providers delivering these services.