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How many people in the world are affected by a disability? - Answers✔17%
how many Americans are affected by a disability? - Answers✔19%
how many school aged children are affected by a disability? - Answers✔5.2%
goals of disability rights movement - Answers✔-accessibility and safety in environments
-equal opportunities in independent living, employment, education, housing
-freedom from neglect/abuse/violations of patients' rights
-civil rights legislations to secure these opportunities
how many 31-64 year olds account for nursing home residents? - Answers✔14%
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - SECTION 504 - Answers✔FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTE
FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; no program that receives federal financial assistance
can discriminate against handicapped individuals
ex: schools, health programs, transportation, etc
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - SECTION 508 - Answers✔federal organizations must have equal
access to electronic office equipment for all employees; mandates rehabilitation technology
rehabilitation technology - Answers✔rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology devices
and services
attendant care cost - Answers✔$26,000; 1/3 less than nursing homes
what's long term more expensive? - Answers✔nursing home is long term more expensive; more
upfront costs to hire case manages, find housing, pay to make home-based bar work, but less
expensive in long term
states are required to pay for - Answers✔nursing home coverage
states do not have to provide - Answers✔in-home assistance
Olmstead vs. L.C. - Answers✔found that there was discrimination in that those with disabilities
were forced to live in institutions/nursing homes; people are required to be given the option in
live in community
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ICF model - Answers✔interaction between health conditions (diseases, disorders) and contextual
factors (environment, personal factors); disability involves disfunction at one of more levels:
body functions and structures, activities, participation
largest minority group seeking employment - Answers✔persons with disabilities
self-determination - Answers✔doesn't mean total independence, just means control over their
choices; ex: make their own medical decisions, not professionals
Independent Living Movement - Answers✔created resources for persons with disabilities to live
independently in the community
institutionalization - Answers✔people with disabilites often confined to institutions with
horrendous living situations
Dorothea Dix - Answers✔first advocate to change institutionalization of those with disabilites;
wanted reformed institutions
Title III ADA - Answers✔Public Accommodations --> public places (buildings; newer ones with
better accommodations and old ones renovated when possible) and transportation must be equal
Edward Roberts - Answers✔founded the first Independent Living Center (1972)
often people with disabilites are more "successful" at aging well because - Answers✔they have
accepted limitations in physical function, have integrated receiving assistance into their lives, are
aware of resources that provide assistance
Centers for Independent Living - Answers✔local organizations to promote independent living;
provide assistance with: accessible housing, attendant care, community resources, equipment
needs
centers for independent living generally run by - Answers✔individuals with disabilites
benefits of subcultures (disability/deaf) - Answers✔ability to socialize with like people,
adjustment of identity, learn to cope with the disability, forming a network of people that
understand the challenges
barriers to employment for those with disabilities - Answers✔little is expected of them; limited
options of jobs that can actually be performed; sheltered workshops can further segregate people
keys to overcoming disability skill deficits - Answers✔education and training, not helpful though
since people with disabilities are underrepresented in higher education
people with disabilites and healthcare policy - Answers✔largely ignored the issue until 1990's;
felt that healthcare system devalued people with disabilities
definition of disability - Answers✔no single, universally accepted definition! closest is Nagi's
disablement model
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