Showing 1 - 10 of 1,551
total share of persons with disability it is clear that a significant share of people in the world's tourist market face … adaptation to the needs of this market segment, where many practical implications have emerged. The concept of accessibility lies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333130
total share of persons with disability it is clear that a significant share of people in the world’s tourist market face … adaptation to the needs of this market segment, where many practical implications have emerged. The concept of accessibility lies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470165
independence to disability, and developing strategies to postpone or reduce frailty and disability. As a result of the … adults at risk of functional decline and disability, identifying events that may precipitate the transition from functional … is only a proxy for other factors that lead to disability, and that some of these factors can be modified to reduce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623425
This is the third and final report on the national Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE … disability benefits. Overall, early interventions such as the DMIE could have positive impacts, although the extent of effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011102489
Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of …-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of disability and associated measurement problems have receivedsome attention, the … dynamic aspect of disability has been largelyoverlooked. This paper uses two approaches to longitudinal data fromthe British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733217
in 1998, by settingthem in the context of the development of disability benefits since theearly 1970s. The first section … charts the creation, extension andsubsequent series of reforms of disability benefits, and shows that while …‘compensatory’ benefits like Industrial Injuries benefit have played asteady role, ‘extra costs’ benefits like Disability Living Allowance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733273
The majority of disabled people experience the onset of their health problem or impairment inadulthood. According to a survey carried out in the mid-1990s, 11 per cent of disabled adultsof working age were born with a health problem or impairment, 12 per cent became disabledduring childhood, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836956
possible source of additional needs: disability. Using twoUK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs ofliving associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ‘standard ofliving’ approach. The underlying … theory is that a household’s standard of livingis a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354064
In the fifth decade of the internet, accessibility for all, especially those with disabilities, is central to digital … inclusion. Yet internationally, the score card on internet and accessibility remains mixed, at best; and woefully inadequate, at … with the life worlds and dynamics of disability, and we suggest how policy can be articulated and improved to put people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164366
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187575