Helping You Help Your Parents

Garry's Blog is focused on data visualization, but I also support efforts being made to help the disabled and elderly.

Caring.com is dedicated to eldercare and is very impressive. I'm touched by their goals, and I hope to contribute to their effort.

There are tons of useful information on Caring.com. I have a syndication link on my Yahoo home page, and I receive daily notice of their latest posts. I'm surprised at how many really valuable articles are regularly posted.

Well done, Caring.com!

Who could hate the disabled?

Image via WikipediaOne might ask, "Who could hate the disabled?"

Thanks to Natalie and using Swivel's data visualization tools with data from the FBI, we can look at bias motivated hate crimes, hate crimes biased against the disabled, and even compare anti-physical and anti-mental bias.

A few interesting notes:

Intimidation
There are 3 times more hate crimes of intimidation from anti-physical bias than anti-mental bias. Simple assault happens about twice as much as intimidation. Aggravated assault is a close third.

Larceny and Theft
About 10 times more hate crimes involving larceny and theft are committed by those with anti-mental disabilities than those with anti-physical bias.

Threat to the Disabled
Generally, the disabled can relax. There was a total of 54 victims, about 100 times less than victims of hate crimes motivated by racial bias.