People with Disabilities

Report

Supporting independent living for disabled people: An evaluation of the Foundations for Living project

This study was to assess the impact of an initiative promoting independent living for disabled people, developed by the English disability charity Papworth Trust.

Journal Article

Few Parents of Chronically Ill Children Use California Paid Family Leave Program

California's pioneering paid family leave program has largely failed to reach one of its major target groups. Few parents of children with serious chronic illnesses have used the program, despite having paid into the program through payroll withholdings, and the vast majority of these parents aren't even aware that the program exists.

Research Brief

Severely Overweight Are Fastest Increasing Group of Obese Americans

The proportion of Americans who are severely obese — about 100 pounds or more overweight — increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2005, twice as fast as the growth seen in moderate obesity.

Journal Article

Chronic Conditions and the Decline in Late-Life Disability

Using data from the 1997-2004 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the authors examine the role of chronic conditions in recent declines in prevalence of late-life disability.

Journal Article

Obesity and Health in Europeans Aged 50 and Older

Documents the prevalence of obesity and related health conditions for Europeans aged 50 years and older, and estimates the association between obesity and health outcomes across 10 European countries. Cross-country differences in the prevalence of obesity in older Europeans are substantial and exceed socio-demographic differentials in excessive body weight. Obesity is associated with significantly poorer health outcomes among Europeans aged 50 years and over, with effects similar across countries.

Journal Article

The Health and Cost Consequences of Obesity Among the Future Elderly

Obesity could have serious consequences for older cohorts. The authors used a microsimulation to estimate lifetime costs, life expectancy, disease, and disability for seventy-year-olds based on body mass.

Journal Article

Depression and Comorbid Pain as Predictors of Disability, Employment, Insurance Status, and Health Care Costs

Relative to depression alone, depression plus pain and pain alone were associated with significant functional limitations and economic burdens.

Journal Article

Labor Market, Financial, Insurance and Disability Outcomes Among Near Elderly Americans with Depression and Pain

Economic burden of depression has been documented, but the role of comorbid pain among the depressed is unclear. Using Wave 3 of the Health and Retirement Survey in 1996, we conducted multivariate regression analyses to estimate associations between depression and comorbid pain, and labor market, financial, insurance and disability outcomes among near elderly Americans aged 55-65, controlling for socio-demographics and health conditions.

News Release

RAND Study Says Disability Rates Rise, Finds Link to Obesity

RAND Study Says Disability Rates Rise, Finds link to Obesity.

Journal Article

Costs of Obesity Growing Dramatically

If obesity continues rising at its current rate in the U.S., by 2020 about one in five health care dollars spent on people ages 50–69 could be consumed by obesity-related medical problems.

Journal Article

Increasing Disability Rates Linked to Obesity

The obesity epidemic caused disability rates to rise sharply in the last two decades among Americans younger than 60, a trend that could have severe consequences for the nation's future health costs.

Report

Financing Health Care for Women with Disabilities

Examines the barriers preventing women with disabilities from receiving appropriate health care and the issues surrounding financing of health care for this population.

Journal Article

Use of the SF-36 and Other Health-Related Quality of Life Measures to Assess Persons with Disabilities

Evaluates the appropriateness of existing approaches to the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for persons with disabilities.

Journal Article

Geriatric Rehabilitation: What Do Physicians Know About It and How Should They Use It?

What is the reimbursement currently available for geriatric rehabilitation, and how might this affect rehabilitation use by primary care physicians?

Journal Article

The Problem of Discrimination in Health Care Priority Setting

Examines both the Americans with Disability Act and the need to limit care, and indicates that there may be a conflict between the two.

Report

Improving Services to Handicapped Children

Evaluates current policies and recommends new policies for improved delivery of services to handicapped youth, with emphasis on children with impaired hearing or vision.

Report

Improving Services to Handicapped Children with Emphasis on Hearing and Vision Impairments: Summary and Recommendations

This Executive Summary recaps the findings in Improving Services to Handicapped Children.

Report

Services for Handicapped Youth: A Program Overview

A cross-agency evaluation of government programs for the more than nine million mentally or physically handicapped youth aged 0-21 who are impaired enough to require services not needed by 'normal' youth.

Report

A Closed Circuit TV System for the Visually Handicapped

A description of an inexpensive, experimental closed circuit TV system that can help the visually handicapped to read, write, or perform precise manual operations.

People

Katie Feistel