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Disability

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 1990
Physical, mental, and social disability are defined. A sociomedical scheme for disability research is presented. How physical and social disability are measured in general health surveys and in arthritis research is described and evaluated. Societal and individual impacts of arthritis are distinguished.
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The Elderly Disabled: The Applicability of Disability Rights for Age-Related Disability

Journal of Legal Medicine, 2020
The question for all who live long lives will be not will one become disabled but when, and in what combinations of factors will one’s disability occur?
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The Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire and the Oswestry Disability Questionnaire.

Spine, 2000
Condition-specific health status measures are commonly used as outcome measures in clinical trials and to assess patient progress in routine clinical practice.
M. Roland, J. Fairbank
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Disability: Physical Disabilities

2013
Physical disability is traditionally defined by society's view of atypical function. The medical model offers information on factors contributing to physical disability, including genetics, injury, and disease. The social model of disability, however, defines the societal responses, not the physical differences, as disabling.
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Aging with Disability and Disability with Aging

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2002
People with early-onset disabilities are said to "age with disability," while those with mid- or late-life onsets are said to have "disability with aging." This is stereotypic since disability and aging are processes that interleave across the whole life course. We show this empirically by studying duration of disabilities by age in the U.S. community-
Lois M. Verbrugge, Li-shou Yang
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Disability: Psychiatric Disabilities

2013
The psychosocial catastrophe that accompanies serious mental illness negatively impacts individual performance and success in all key life domains. A person-in-environment perspective, and with a traditional and inherent interest in consumer and community strengths, is well positioned to address psychiatric disabilities.
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Disability identity – disability pride [PDF]

Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
This paper discusses a way of thinking about disability which has emerged out of the UK Disabled People's Movement over the last three decades in opposition to the preceding medical model of disabi...
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#SaytheWord: A Disability Culture Commentary on the Erasure of “Disability”

Rehabilitation Psychology, 2019
Purpose: To inform the field of rehabilitation psychology about the sociocultural implications of the term “disability,” and explain the rationale behind the #SaytheWord movement, a social media call to embrace disability identity.
Erin E. Andrews, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Linda R Mona, Emily M. Lund, Carrie R Pilarski, R. Balter   +5 more
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The Law's Understanding of Intellectual Disability As a Disability [PDF]

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
AbstractIntellectual disability (ID) is differently yet validly described by different professions. Legal professionals find it most useful to consider ID as a disability rather than a disorder. Because the law regulates the actions of individuals in a society and the actions of society on an individual, the law's concern in dealing with a person with ...
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Disability and the Inhuman

2020
When presented with the term 'inhuman', I was drawn to consider how certain ways of being become associated with the inhuman, how this association is involved in the constitution of what is taken as properly human, and the deleterious effects for those who become associated with the inhuman. I'm going to address these topics in three stages.
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