The city of Philadelphia is using census data and mapping technology to paint a clearer picture of where differently abled people live in the city. The first publicly accessible iteration of the map, ...

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

Adults with disabilities who reported adverse health-related characteristics (e.g., cigarette smoking, physical inactivity, insufficient sleep, obesity, or depressive disorders) or an unmet health ...

Intellectual disability is a developmental delay that is significantly below average compared to peers, in terms of intelligence and adaptive skills. The American Association on Intellectual and ...

Aging can be defined as the process of growing older. People growing older with long-standing disabilities are said to “age with disability,” whereas people who do not experience disability until ...

Even though people with disabilities want to work, their unemployment rate is nearly double that of non-disabled individuals—even as companies who prioritize workplace inclusion are better off.

Intelligence is the general mental capacity that involves reasoning, planning, solving problems, thinking abstractly, comprehending complex ideas, learning efficiently, and learning from experience ...

Despite the importance of functional status to older persons and their families, little is known about the course of disability at the end of life. We evaluated data on 383 decedents from a ...

Seventeen percent of Philadelphia residents live with some form of disability, and the city’s Disability Characteristics Map makes data on where those people live readily available, informing decision ...