For schizophrenia caregivers, burden is intensified by the patient's severity of symptoms, duration of illness, number of needs, disability extent, decreased social interests, being male, and being older [ 1– 3, 7, 8].
The modern history of blind people is in many ways a history of reading, with the scope of the disability — the extent to which you are viewed as ignorant or civilized, helpless or independent — determined largely by your ability to access the printed word.
Both the incidence of falls and the severity of complications stemming from a fall increase with age, level of disability, and extent of functional impairment [ 4, 5].
These include the indicators of inequalities in self-rated health, self-rated disability, the extent of public and private health care coverage, and self-reported unmet medical and dental care need [ 23].
Despite the higher prevalence of comorbidity experienced by the adults with intellectual disabilities, the extent of their morbidities may be under-recorded.
And I think alternative theatre had an influence far beyond its size in helping to change attitudes towards for instance gender, sexuality and, to quite a large extent, disability.
"We've seen the Abbott government over the past six months demonise people with disability to the extent I now get email after email from people who have disabilities who are so frightened because of the way in which the Abbott government describes people," she told ABC radio.
The implications of outcome-oriented theories for disability, and the extent to which they address the need for recognition and respect, depend on two features of those theories.
And he plays down his disability to the extent that Sunday will be the first time he has competed with a sighted guide, which is customary in his Paralympic category.
We obtained basic demographic data including age, gender, marital status, employment status, WHO disability grading, and extent of physical impairment.
It is unclear to what extent disability and the social environment alters the predictive ability of SRH on mortality.
