Although health deteriorates along an ageing and disablement process, disability may be reduced through the effects of HAs.
It may be that there are as many attitudes to disablement as there are disabled or able-bodied people (another problematic phrase).
In the Nagi model of disablement, functional limitation precedes disability [ 53].
We chose the disablement process over other disability models, among other reasons, because it considers the stages in disablement as an explicit sequence of linked events, one leading to the next.
29 Depressive symptoms therefore contribute to the "disablement process speeding up disease to disability".
In the Netherlands, arguably the world leader in phoney disablement, a tougher government line on physical disability has encouraged more folk to claim mental disability.
Disabling Yongbyon closed in July; since then, disablement to put it beyond use has proceeded under U.S. supervision.
We have proposed a disablement framework for studying the development of disability, and possibly other outcomes, in RA [ 5].
Four main factors lead to disablement: active pathology, physical impairment, functional limitation, and disability.
The LLDFI, conceptually founded on the Disablement Process and Nagi models, is one of the few disability instruments that provides a comprehensive assessment of all aspects of progressive disablement and disability.
