Thus, the boundaries between personal disability identity pride and notions of disability community often are blurred.
While many people carry additional life insurance, personal disability coverage is often overlooked.
But Moorad said Gonzalez recently purchased a $50 million personal disability policy and did not expect the back condition to have an effect on negotiations.
If you have no chronic conditions, eat decent food and avoid cigarettes, your odds may drop to 10 percent, according to the "Personal Disability Quotient" quiz on the Web site of the Council for Disability Awareness.
To help people make their own calculation, the Council for Disability Awareness, a trade group backed by the insurance industry, created a calculator called What's My Personal Disability Quotient.
Chronic migraine (CM) is associated with personal disability and burden; however the effect on family life is less certain.
The alternative is that large numbers of people will remain without diagnosis or best treatment, with not much hope for change, their unmitigated personal disability burdens translating into lost productivity with reduced societal output reflected in gross domestic product.
Sub-types of bipolar disorder differ in terms of illness severity, clinical and social outcomes, response to treatments, and personal disability, and these differences may have had an impact on our findings.
And that to be considered "disabled", you are not judged on your own personal and unique abilities within your personal disability, but by the umbrella of the term alone.
In Spain, a personal disability index has been proposed, based on unselected disabilities registered in the 1999 NDS and taking into account the severity and number of hours of personal help received per week [ 11].
