Disabled Persons

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A conceptual framework of outcomes for caregivers of assistive technology users. 
  • A framework for modelling the selection of assistive technology devices (ATDs). 
  • A framework for the conceptual modelling of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • A heavy burden on young minds: the global burden of mental and substance use disorders in children and youth. 
  • A longitudinal study of functional change and mortality in the United States. 
  • A new classification of function and disability in China: subtypes based on performance-based and self-reported measures. 
  • A new method for correcting under-estimation of disabled life expectancy and an application to the Chinese oldest-old. 
  • A randomized, double-blind, futility clinical trial of creatine and minocycline in early Parkinson disease. 
  • A team approach: comprehensive evaluation for functional decline in older patients. 
  • Access to AAC: present, past, and future. 
  • Access to health care services for the disabled elderly. 
  • Accessibility and accommodations for patients with mobility disabilities in a large healthcare system: How are we doing? 
  • Accessibility of health clubs for people with mobility disabilities and visual impairments. 
  • Activity restriction among wheelchair users. 
  • Addition of frailty and disability to cardiac surgery risk scores identifies elderly patients at high risk of mortality or major morbidity. 
  • Addressing the global burden of hearing loss. 
  • Age Group Comparisons of TENS Response Among Individuals With Chronic Axial Low Back Pain. 
  • Age and sex differences in the association between access to medical care and health outcomes among older Chinese. 
  • An educational program's effects on students' attitudes toward people with disabilities: a 1-year follow-up. 
  • An inverse association between self-reported arthritis and mortality in the elderly: findings from the national long-term care survey. 
  • Analysis of change in self-reported physical function among older persons in four population studies. 
  • Analysis of underwriting factors for AAPCC (adjusted average per capita cost). 
  • Are China's oldest-old living longer with less disability? A longitudinal modeling analysis of birth cohorts born 10 years apart. 
  • Association between APOE epsilon 2/epsilon 3/epsilon 4 polymorphism and disability severity in a national long-term care survey sample. 
  • Association between primary caregiver type and mortality among Chinese older adults with disability: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Association of Blood Chemistry Quantifications of Biological Aging With Disability and Mortality in Older Adults. 
  • Association of Body Mass Index With Disability in Activities of Daily Living Among Chinese Adults 80 Years of Age or Older. 
  • Association of Frailty with recovery from disability among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: China health and retirement longitudinal study. 
  • Association of a cancer diagnosis with vulnerability and frailty in older Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Association of environmental factors with levels of home and community participation in an adult rehabilitation cohort. 
  • Association of multimorbidity patterns with incident disability and recovery of independence among middle-aged and older adults. 
  • Associations between adolescent risk behaviors and injury: the modifying role of disability. 
  • Attribution for everyday discrimination typologies and mortality risk among older black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study? 
  • Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects. 
  • Black-white differences in risk of becoming disabled and recovering from disability in old age: a longitudinal analysis of two EPESE populations. 
  • Black-white disparity in disability: the role of medical conditions. 
  • Body composition in ambulatory women with multiple sclerosis. 
  • Body mass index and nine-year mortality in disabled and nondisabled older U.S. individuals. 
  • Bouncing back after lumbar spine surgery: early postoperative resilience is associated with 12-month physical function, pain interference, social participation, and disability. 
  • COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Considerations and Costs of Telehealth Exercise Programs for Older Adults With Functional Impairments Living at Home-Lessons Learned From a Pilot Case Study. 
  • COVID-19 and the need for disability conscious medical education, training, and practice. 
  • Can eHealth Technology Enhance the Patient-Provider Relationship in Rehabilitation? 
  • Caregiving networks of elderly persons: variation by marital status. 
  • Catastrophic acute and long-term care costs: risks faced by disabled elderly persons. 
  • Change in chronic disability from 1982 to 2004/2005 as measured by long-term changes in function and health in the U.S. elderly population. 
  • Changes in health, mortality, and disability and their impact on long-term care needs. 
  • Changes in home care use by disabled elderly persons: 1982-1994. 
  • Changes in morbidity and chronic disability in the U.S. elderly population: evidence from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys. 
  • Changes in the age dependence of mortality and disability: cohort and other determinants. 
  • Changes in the prevalence of chronic disability in the United States black and nonblack population above age 65 from 1982 to 1999. 
  • Changes in the use of personal assistance and special equipment from 1982 to 1989: results from the 1982 and 1989 NLTCS. 
  • Children's perceptions of responsibility: attitudes while working with peers with disabilities. 
  • Choosing Who Will be Disabled: Genetic Intervention and the Morality of Inclusion 
  • Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982-1994. 
  • Chronic medical conditions and the sex-based disparity in disability: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Chronic pain acceptance incrementally predicts disability in polytrauma-exposed veterans at baseline and 1-year follow-up. 
  • Classification of older adults who underwent lumbar-related surgery using pre-operative biopsychosocial predictors and relationships with surgical recovery: An observational study conducted in the United States. 
  • Clinical commentary on "Certain uncertainty: life after stroke from the patient's perspective". 
  • Clinician Perspectives on mRehab Interventions and Technologies for People with Disabilities in the United States: A National Survey. 
  • Cohort changes in active life expectancy in the U.S. elderly population: experience from the 1982-2004 National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Cohort differences and chronic disease profiles of differential disability trajectories. 
  • Commentary on "Disability Trajectories at the End of Life: A Countdown Model" The Problems With Time-to-Death as a Predictor of Disability. 
  • Comorbid visual and cognitive impairment: relationship with disability status and self-rated health among older Singaporeans. 
  • Comparing mortality and time until death for medicare HMO and FFS beneficiaries. 
  • Comparison of Structural Disease Burden to Health-related Quality of Life Scores in 264 Adult Spinal Deformity Patients With 2-Year Follow-up: Novel Insights into Drivers of Disability. 
  • Correlation between symptoms and function in older adults with comorbidity. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of community-based strategies for blood pressure control in a low-income developing country: findings from a cluster-randomized, factorial-controlled trial. 
  • Cross-Sectional Analysis of Per Capita Supply of Doctors of Chiropractic and Opioid Use in Younger Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Delirium as a predictor of mortality and disability among hospitalized patients in Zambia. 
  • Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States. 
  • Demographic trends for the aging female population. 
  • Depression and physical disability outcomes in depressed medically ill hospitalized older adults. 
  • Depression, disability days, and days lost from work in a prospective epidemiologic survey. 
  • Depressive symptoms in the elderly: association with total white blood cell count. 
  • Determining a transitional scoring link between PROMIS® pediatric and adult physical health measures. 
  • Development and Validation of the Disability Index Among Older Adults. 
  • Development and Validation of the Rasch-Built Overall Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disability Scale (ROADS). 
  • Development and validation of AIMFREE: Accessibility Instruments Measuring Fitness and Recreation Environments. 
  • Development of a teletechnology protocol for in-home rehabilitation. 
  • Disability and depressive symptoms in the elderly: the effects of instrumental support and its subjective appraisal. 
  • Disability and frailty among elderly Canadians: a comparison of six surveys. 
  • Disability and health care costs in the Medicare population. 
  • Disability and home hazards and safety practices in US households. 
  • Disability and sunshine: can hedonic predictions be improved by drawing attention to focusing illusions or emotional adaptation? 
  • Disability as a function of social networks and support in elderly African Americans and Whites: the Duke EPESE 1986--1992. 
  • Disability as an Emerging Public Health Crisis in Postearthquake Nepal. 
  • Disability but not social support predicts cognitive deterioration in late-life depression. 
  • Disability fingerprints: patterns of disability in spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis differ. 
  • Disability incidence and official health status transitions in Russia. 
  • Disability trends in gender and race groups of early retirement ages in the USA. 
  • Disabled nurses. 
  • Disabling back injuries in nursing personnel. 
  • Discharge destination influences risks of readmission and complications after lumbar spine surgery in severely disabled patients. 
  • Disentangling the effects of disability status and gender on the labor supply of Anglo, black, and Latino older workers. 
  • Disordered eating among adolescents with chronic illness and disability: the role of family and other social factors. 
  • Disparities in Cardiovascular Research Output and Disease Outcomes among High-, Middle- and Low-Income Countries - An Analysis of Global Cardiovascular Publications over the Last Decade (2008-2017). 
  • Divergent Pathways? Racial/ethnic Differences in Older Women's Labor Force Withdrawal 
  • Do gender, disability, and morbidity affect aging rate in the LLFS? Application of indices of cumulative deficits. 
  • Do older adults with shoulder disorders who meet the minimal clinically important difference also present low disability at discharge? An observational study. 
  • Does Disordered Sleep Moderate the Relationship Between Pain, Disability and Downstream Health Care Utilization in Patients With Low Back Pain?: A Longitudinal Cohort From the US Military Health System. 
  • Domain specific self-efficacy mediates the impact of pain catastrophizing on pain and disability in overweight and obese osteoarthritis patients. 
  • Drug use management in board and care facilities. 
  • Dysphoria and anhedonia as risk factors for disability or death in older persons: implications for the assessment of geriatric depression. 
  • Educating primary care physicians in geriatric rehabilitation. 
  • Education-specific estimates of life expectancy and age-specific disability in the U.S. elderly population: 1982 to 1991. 
  • Effect of new disability subtype on 3-year mortality in Chinese older adults. 
  • Effects of Chiropractic Care on Strength, Balance, and Endurance in Active-Duty U.S. Military Personnel with Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Effects of an educational intervention on students' attitudes toward the disabled. 
  • Effects of change in physical activity on physical function limitations in older women: mediating roles of physical function performance and self-efficacy. 
  • Effects of medical research on health care and economy. 
  • Effects of telerehabilitation on physical function and disability for stroke patients: a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Enhancing AAC connections with the world. 
  • Epidemiological, demographic, and social correlates of disability among the elderly. 
  • Epidemiology of persecutory ideation in an elderly population in the community. 
  • Equivalence of two screens of cognitive functioning: the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and the Orientation-Memory-Concentration test. 
  • Estimates of change in chronic disability and institutional incidence and prevalence rates in the U.S. elderly population from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • Estimates of state-level health-care expenditures associated with disability. 
  • Examining racial and ethnic differences in disability among older adults: A polysocial score approach. 
  • Experiences of VA vocational and education training and assistance services: Facilitators and barriers reported by veterans with disabilities. 
  • Explaining Disability Trends in the U.S. Elderly and Near-Elderly Population. 
  • Exploration of migraine pain, disability, depressive symptomatology, and coping: a pilot study 
  • Exploratory investigation of the outcomes of wheelchair provision through two service models in Indonesia. 
  • Exploring the factors that influence functional performance among nursing home residents. 
  • Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh. 
  • Factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Fear-avoidance beliefs and temporal summation of evoked thermal pain influence self-report of disability in patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Femur fractures in institutionalized patients after hip spica immobilization. 
  • Financial counseling for families of children with chronic disabilities. 
  • Forecasting the nursing home population. 
  • Forecasts of active life expectancy: policy and fiscal implications. 
  • Functional Limitations Due to Lumbar Stiffness in Adults With and Without Spinal Deformity. 
  • Functional associations of "trouble seeing". 
  • Functional decline in older adults. 
  • Functional disability among elderly blacks and whites in two diverse areas: the New Haven and North Carolina EPESE. Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. 
  • Functional disability, disability transitions, and depressive symptoms in late life. 
  • Functional outcomes for clinical trials in frail older persons: time to be moving. 
  • Future trends in chronic disability and institutionalization: implications for long-term care needs. 
  • Fuzzy set analyses of genetic determinants of health and disability status. 
  • Gender-dependent association of body mass index and waist circumference with disability in the Chinese oldest old. 
  • Geriatric rehabilitation: state of the art. 
  • Global Hearing Loss Prevention. 
  • Global Need for Physical Rehabilitation: Systematic Analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global and regional burden of cancer in 2016 arising from occupational exposure to selected carcinogens: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Global and regional burden of disease and injury in 2016 arising from occupational exposures: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. 
  • Global, regional, and national burden of bone fractures in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. 
  • Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global, regional, and national burden of motor neuron diseases 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Happily hopeless: adaptation to a permanent, but not to a temporary, disability. 
  • Health of Newborns and Infants Born to Women With Disabilities: The Life Course Perspective. 
  • Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy. 
  • Healthcare utilization and cost trajectories post-stroke: role of caregiver and stroke factors. 
  • Hearing Impairment and Mental Health Among Married Couples 
  • Helping Invested Families Improve Veterans' Experiences Study (HI-FIVES): study design and methodology. 
  • High-Impact Chronic Pain Transition in Lumbar Surgery Recipients. 
  • High-risk preterm infants at 3 years of age: parental response to the presence of developmental problems. 
  • Home and community-based waivers for disabled adults: program versus selection effects. 
  • Home care expenses for the disabled elderly. 
  • Hospital and ED charges for spina bifida care in the United States between 2006 and 2014: Over $2 billion annually. 
  • Hospital readmission among older adults who return home with unmet need for ADL disability. 
  • How a diverse research ecosystem has generated new rehabilitation technologies: Review of NIDILRR's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers. 
  • Identification of comatose patients at high risk for death or severe disability. SUPPORT Investigators. Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Identification of targets for improving access to care in persons with long term physical disabilities. 
  • Identifying patient fear-avoidance beliefs by physical therapists managing patients with low back pain. 
  • Identifying psychosocial variables in patients with acute work-related low back pain: the importance of fear-avoidance beliefs. 
  • Impact of secondary health conditions on social role participation for a long-term physical disability cohort. 
  • Implications of changes in households and living arrangements for future home-based care needs and costs for disabled elders in China. 
  • Improved fitness narrows the symptom-reporting gap between older men and women. 
  • Improving value measurement in cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Informal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities Increased, 2004-16. 
  • Informal Caregiver Disability and Access to Preventive Care in Care Recipients. 
  • Informal Caregiver Support Policies Change Use of Vocational Assistance Services for Individuals With Disabilities. 
  • Injury among 1107 Canadian students with self-identified disabilities. 
  • Instrumental support primarily provided by adult children and trajectories of depressive symptoms among older adults with disabilities in rural China. 
  • Insufficient help for activity of daily living disabilities and risk of all-cause hospitalization. 
  • Interpretations of state board criteria and disciplinary procedures regarding impaired nurses. 
  • Interventions Against Disability in Frail Older Adults: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials. 
  • Introduction: Disability policy and the law: much accomplished, much remains to be done. 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Just for Us: in-home care for frail elderly and disabled individuals with low incomes. 
  • Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics. 
  • Leisure activities and disability in activities of daily living among the oldest-old Chinese population: evidence from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study. 
  • Leveraging institutional support for family caregivers to meet the health and vocational needs of persons with disabilities. 
  • Life-saving treatments and disabilities. Are all QALYs created equal? 
  • LiveWell RERC State of the Science Conference Report on ICT Access to Support Community Living, Health and Function for People with Disabilities. 
  • Long-term recovery profile of patients with severe disability or in vegetative states following severe primary intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Measurement Properties of the Oswestry Disability Index in Recipients of Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Measuring community participation of adults with psychiatric disabilities: reliability of two modes of data collection. 
  • Measuring disability and function in older women: psychometric properties of the late-life function and disability instrument. 
  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Mechanical Thrombectomy in Ischemic Stroke Patients with Severe Pre-Stroke Disability. 
  • Medicare cost effects of recent U.S. disability trends in the elderly: future implications. 
  • Medicare managed care enrollment by disability-eligible and age-eligible veterans. 
  • Methodological challenges confronting researchers of wheeled mobility aids and other assistive technologies. 
  • Minimum Detectable Measurement Difference for Health-Related Quality of Life Measures Varies With Age and Disability in Adult Spinal Deformity: Implications for Calculating Minimal Clinically Important Difference. 
  • Misimagining the unimaginable: the disability paradox and health care decision making. 
  • Mobile Healthcare and People with Disabilities: Current State and Future Needs. 
  • Modeling the Scale-up of Surgical Services for Children with Surgically Treatable Congenital Conditions in Somaliland. 
  • Monitoring changes in the health of the U.S. elderly population: correlates with biomedical research and clinical innovations. 
  • Multidimensional problems and findings in developmentally disabled children. 
  • Musculoskeletal Health: Addressing the Leading Causes of Disability. 
  • Navigating risks and professional roles: research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer young people with intellectual disabilities. 
  • Obesity and Eligibility for Obesity Treatments Among Adults With Disabilities in the U.S. 
  • Obesity prevalence among a group of Chicago residents with disabilities. 
  • Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania. 
  • Operative versus nonoperative treatment of knee dislocations: a meta-analysis. 
  • Osteoarthritic knee pain: a behavioral analysis. 
  • Out-of-Pocket Spending for Ambulatory Physical Therapy Services From 2008 to 2012: National Panel Survey. 
  • Outcome and life satisfaction of adults with myelomeningocele. 
  • Oxygen delivery systems for adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. 
  • Pain and disability determine treatment modality for older patients with adult scoliosis, while deformity guides treatment for younger patients. 
  • Pain and pain-related interference with function in older Canadians: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 
  • Past and future life expectancy increases at later ages: their implications for the linkage of chronic morbidity, disability, and mortality. 
  • Patients with adult spinal deformity treated operatively report greater baseline pain and disability than patients treated nonoperatively; however, deformities differ between age groups. 
  • Patterns of inpatient care for prostate cancer in men with spina bifida. 
  • Perceived barriers and supports to accessing community-based services for Uganda's pediatric post-surgical population. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of physical functioning among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Persistent posttraumatic headaches and functioning in veterans: Injury type can matter. 
  • Philosophy of care delivery for spina bifida. 
  • Physical Rehabilitation Needs Per Condition Type: Results From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Physical activity and functional limitations in older women: influence of self-efficacy. 
  • Physical activity participation among persons with disabilities: barriers and facilitators. 
  • Physical fitness and functional limitations in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Physical performance and subsequent disability and survival in older adults with malignancy: results from the health, aging and body composition study. 
  • Physically, mentally disabled teens require special contraceptive care. 
  • Plasma hypertonicity: another marker of frailty? 
  • Positive emotions, physical disability, and mortality in older adults. 
  • Predicting Opioid Use, Increased Health Care Utilization and High Costs for Musculoskeletal Pain: What Factors Mediate Pain Intensity and Disability? 
  • Predicting Pain and Disability After Shoulder Arthroscopy: Rotator Cuff Tear Severity and Concomitant Arthroscopic Procedures. 
  • Prediction of pain behavior and functional status of rheumatoid arthritis patients using medical status and psychological variables. 
  • Predictors of Secondary Role Strains Among Spousal Caregivers of Older Adults With Functional Disability. 
  • Predictors of disability in the final year of life. 
  • Preoperative Disability in US Veterans. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of clinically significant depressive symptoms among elderly people in Sri Lanka: findings from a national survey. 
  • Prevalence and extent of low back pain and low back-related disability in non-care-seeking working-age adults. 
  • Prevalence, Incidence, and Risk Factors for Overall, Physical, and Cognitive Independence Among Those From Exceptionally Long-Lived Families: The Long Life Family Study. 
  • Private health insurance coverage and disability among older Americans. 
  • Projecting Long-Term Care Costs for Home and Community-Based Services in China from 2005 to 2050. 
  • Projecting the effects of long-term care policy on the labor market participation of primary informal family caregivers of elderly with disability: insights from a dynamic simulation model. 
  • Proxy response patterns among the aged: effects on estimates of health status and medical care utilization from the 1982-1984 long-term care surveys. 
  • Psychosocial Mechanisms of Cognitive-Behavioral-Based Physical Therapy Outcomes After Spine Surgery: Preliminary Findings From Mediation Analyses. 
  • Psychosocial and physical correlates of chronic depression. 
  • Psychosocial influences on low back pain: why should you care? 
  • Public preferences for prevention versus cure: what if an ounce of prevention is worth only an ounce of cure? 
  • Quality of life and Parkinson's disease. 
  • Quantifiable impact of the contract for health and wellness: health behaviors, health care costs, disability, and workers' compensation. 
  • Quantifying six-minute walk induced gait deterioration with inertial sensors in multiple sclerosis subjects. 
  • Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Radiographic Fusion Grade Does Not Impact Health-Related Quality of Life in the Absence of Instrumentation Failure for Patients Undergoing Posterior Instrumented Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Recent changes in service use patterns of disabled Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Recent declines in chronic disability in the elderly U.S. population: risk factors and future dynamics. 
  • Reconcilable differences? Human diversity, cultural relativity, and sense of community. 
  • Relationship Between Chronic Conditions and Disability in African American Men and Women. 
  • Relationship Between Fear of Falling and Physical Activity in People Aging With a Disability. 
  • Relationship between self-reported disability and caregiver hours. 
  • Relevant concepts of functioning for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus identified in a Delphi exercise of experts and a literature review. 
  • Reliability and Validity of the Revised Transfer Assessment Instrument. 
  • Remotely engaged: Lessons from remote monitoring in multiple sclerosis. 
  • Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: report from a technical working group. 
  • Responses of schools of nursing to physically, mentally, and substance-impaired students. 
  • Role of weight history on functional limitations and disability in late adulthood: the ARIC study. 
  • Sarcopenia Should Reflect the Contribution of Age-Associated Changes in Skeletal Muscle to Risk of Morbidity and Mortality in Elderly People. 
  • Seizure Burden, EEG, and Outcome in Neonates With Acute Intracranial Infections: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study. 
  • Self-Care Capacity and Its Relationship to Age, Disability, and Perceived Well-Being in Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Self-compassion in patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain: relationship of self-compassion to adjustment to persistent pain. 
  • Serum IL-6 level and the development of disability in older persons. 
  • Serum carboxymethyl-lysine, disability, and frailty in older persons: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Social Risk Factors Are Associated With Disability Prevalence - Results From 17 States in the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 
  • Socioeconomic status influences the relationship between fear-avoidance beliefs work and disability. 
  • Spouse-assisted coping skills training in the management of osteoarthritic knee pain. 
  • Standardized measures of health status and disability and the decision to pursue operative treatment in elderly patients with degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Studying disability trends in aging populations. 
  • Supporting Students With Disabilities. 
  • Tele-Assessment of the Berg Balance Scale: Effects of Transmission Characteristics. 
  • Temporal trends in self-reported functional limitations and physical disability among the community-dwelling elderly population: the Framingham heart study. 
  • The 2015 Nepal Earthquake(s): Lessons Learned From the Disability and Rehabilitation Sector's Preparation for, and Response to, Natural Disasters. 
  • The Americans With Disabilities Act, Reasonable Accommodations, and Medical Education. 
  • The Digital Health Revolution and People with Disabilities: Perspective from the United States. 
  • The Effect of Patient Characteristics on 1 to 2-Year and Minimum 5-Year Outcomes After Total Ankle Arthroplasty. 
  • The Effects of Social Support on Physical Functioning in Older African Americans: Longitudinal Results from the Baltimore Study of Black Aging. 
  • The Impact of Long-Term Care Policy on the Percentage of Older Adults With Disabilities Cared for by Family Members in China: A System Dynamics Simulation. 
  • The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Disability on Mental Health Trajectories in Mid- to Late-Life. 
  • The Relationship between Pain, Disability, and Sex in African Americans. 
  • The Role of Prevention in Healthy Aging. 
  • The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States. 
  • The Voice of the Consumer: A Survey of Veterans and Other Users of Assistive Technology. 
  • The accuracy of new wheelchair users' predictions about their future wheelchair use. 
  • The association between socioeconomic status and disability after stroke: findings from the Adherence eValuation After Ischemic stroke Longitudinal (AVAIL) registry. 
  • The association of age and depression among the elderly: an epidemiologic exploration. 
  • The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China. 
  • The association of plasma IL-6 levels with functional disability in community-dwelling elderly. 
  • The clinical course of palpitations in medical outpatients. 
  • The complex association between religious activities and functional limitations in older adults. 
  • The differential effect of compensation structures on the likelihood that firms accept new patients by insurance type. 
  • The dynamics of dimensions of age-related disability 1982 to 1994 in the U.S. elderly population. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The effect of prior experience in a rehabilitation setting on students' attitudes toward the disabled. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The effects of in-home rehabilitation on task self-efficacy in mobility-impaired adults: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • The genetic component of discrete disability traits: an analysis using liability models with age-dependent thresholds. 
  • The global coverage of prevalence data for mental disorders in children and adolescents. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of stroke on psychological and physical function outcomes in people with long-term physical disability. 
  • The linkage of health status changes and disability. 
  • The relationship of self-reported pain and functional impairment to gait mechanics in overweight and obese persons with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • The role of fear-avoidance beliefs in acute low back pain: relationships with current and future disability and work status. 
  • The role of the built environment in the disablement process. 
  • The school experience of children with arthritis. Coping in the 1990s and transition into adulthood. 
  • The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. 
  • The symptoms of osteoarthritis and the genesis of pain. 
  • The wellbeing of the elderly. Approaches to multidimensional assessment. 
  • Theoretical perspectives on the relation between catastrophizing and pain. 
  • Toward a taxonomy of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • Trajectories of positive aspects of caregiving among family caregivers of stroke-survivors: the differential impact of stroke-survivor disability. 
  • Transition planning in early intervention: nurse practitioner implications. 
  • Trauma-informed exercise for women survivors of sexual violence. 
  • Treating excess disability among cognitively impaired nursing home residents. 
  • Treatment monitoring as a component of psychologically informed physical therapy: A case series of patients at high risk for persistent low back pain related disability. 
  • Trends in ADL and IADL disability in community-dwelling older adults in Shanghai, China, 1998-2008. 
  • Trends in functional disability and cognitive impairment among the older adult in China up to 2060: estimates from a dynamic multi-state population model. 
  • Understanding how race/ethnicity and gender define age-trajectories of disability: an intersectionality approach. 
  • Unmet Need for ADL Assistance Is Associated With Mortality Among Older Adults With Mild Disability. 
  • Visual event-related potentials in progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, striatonigral degeneration, and Parkinson's disease. 
  • What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socioeconomic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability? 
  • What makes killing wrong? 
  • Wheelchair users are not necessarily wheelchair bound. 
  • Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public. 
  • Workplace discrimination and cumulative trauma disorders: the national EEOC ADA research project. 
  • Zika Virus (ZIKV), Global Public Health, Disability, and Rehabilitation: Connecting the Dots…. 
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  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Adjunct Associate in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
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