Sentence examples for process of disablement from inspiring English sources

"It is unfortunate that North Korea has not yet met its commitments by providing a complete and correct declaration of its nuclear programs and slowing down the process of disablement," a State Department spokesman, Tom Casey, said in a statement.

Rather, she argues that being classified as having an impairment is an integral part of the social process of disablement.

Disablement frameworks were determined unable to fully conceptualize the complex risk factors and intermediary steps in the process of disablement.

In conclusion, we have used principal component factor analysis to derive a global functional performance scale to measure the functional limitation stage in the process of disablement in RA.

For example, if we were to find that for people who are socially deprived, impairment directly impacts participation restriction, whereas for those who are less deprived there is no direct path, then it might be possible to target interventions more accurately and to gain greater understanding of the process of disablement.

No one in aging research would question the important role that physical impairments have on the process of disablement in aging, yet oddly little attention has been given to the role that sensory information associated with the musculoskeletal system and the viscera play in understanding thoughts, feelings, and behavior as people age.

These results have implications for interpretation for SF-36 results and for the understanding of the process and pattern of disablement in OA.

We used the "disablement process" of Verbrugge [ 23] as a framework for studying determinants and outcomes in the present study.

Patients treated with hypoglycemic agents had higher fasting glucose levels and longer duration of disease compared with both individuals on dietetic therapy and those without diabetes, suggesting that severity and duration of diabetes and degree of metabolic control might play an important role in the disablement process of older persons with diabetes (29).

With the exception of the term 'process' used by Verbrugge and Jette [ 8] and Fougeyrollas and colleagues [ 5], to acknowledge a course of disablement, most frameworks conceptualize disability at a single point in time [ 4, 6, 7, 9].

In the Nagi model of disablement, functional limitation precedes disability [ 53].