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A qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 31 people with disabilities and 32 carers in the state of Queensland, Australia, found that their experience of supportive service delivery had not improved despite reforms of the service delivery system driven by a version of the...
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This paper draws on Japanese, British and other material for a comparative analysis of name-calling. Naming the other is a means of identification, helping to establish definitions of self. Definitional power is socially distributed: the power of the mainstream is orchestrated by expert...
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disability (visual disability in this case). The names and the characters are fictitious though the overall inspiration of the … affecting the treatment of individuals with disability in the organization. These factors can be broadly divided into two … issues like due diligent efforts that need to be made to accommodate the individuals with disability, the acceptance of the …
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ascertain the perceptions of managers in the accommodation sector towards disability service provision with a view to … people with a disability to communicate their needs to the hotel; perceptions of accessible rooms by the general public; and … included: legislative responsibility, policy and building codes; disability as a market segment; staff awareness/training; and …
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receive federal or state disability funding, and about half as many support staff. Rather than being seen as an agency …
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The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium—for the first time using a rich survey dataset to analyze retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (Econom Econ Soc 58(5):1151–1180, <CitationRef CitationID="CR11">1990</CitationRef>)....</citationref>
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This study examined disability trends by marital status among older adults aged 60 and above from 1997 to 2010 in the U ….S. We addressed two questions: (1) Has the relationship between marital status and disability changed over the study period … reporting either ADL or IADL disability than the unmarried groups over the entire study period across all gender and racial …
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disability, especially among foreign-born Hispanics, since their advantaged mortality seemingly should be paired with health …. We calculate multistate life tables of life expectancy with disability to assess whether racial/ethnic and nativity … differences in the length of disability-free life parallel differences in overall life expectancy. Our results document a Hispanic …
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H53; J08; I3 </AbstractSection> Copyright Coe et al.; licensee Springer. 2014
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J14, J18 </AbstractSection> Copyright Burkhauser et al.; licensee Springer. 2014
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