Recent development of the Episodic Disability Framework identified features of disability that were not considered a component of disablement in earlier generic disability frameworks, which explains why uncertainty was less represented among these older measures.
Stienstra and Chochinov note the comparative neglect of the special considerations raised by disability in the field of palliative care and propose a vulnerability model of palliative care to incorporate the unique features of disability in palliative care.
An interesting feature of LBP disability is that 75% or more of the costs of LBP can be attributed to 5% of the patients.
Following on from the campaign, Scope has produced a list of children's books that feature positive models of disability on its website, scope.org.uk It has also created some image banks to inspire and show what is possible.
Part I examined how the four demographic features of gender, disability, ethnicity and age influenced student satisfaction and their performance on nursing modules.
"Probable" bvFTD requires the additional features of functional disability and characteristic neuroimaging, whereas bvFTD "with definitive frontotemporal lobar degeneration" requires histopathological conformation or confirmation of pathogenic mutation.
Classification and clinical features as well as predictors of disability have been described.
These beliefs were pronounced, although not a unique feature, of those with higher levels of disability ('I've already got them [the damage]. It's there for the rest of my life': R11).
With improvements in the treatment of motor symptoms, PD's non-motor symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, cognitive deficits, and olfactory dysfunction) have been increasingly recognized as a major cause of disability, particularly neuropsychiatric features (e.g., depression and anxiety) and cognitive impairments [4] [11].
Features of this framework include the episodic nature of disability, a working definition of the term episodic disability, uncertainty as a key dimension of disablement, contextual factors that influence disability and triggers that initiate major episodes.
