The main question concerned their expectation of being granted a disability benefit and the reasons for that expectation. Additionally, personal characteristics and the first question of the Work Ability Index (WAI) were inventoried. This was compared to the actual outcome of the application for a ...
If your initial application and the reconsideration stage for social security disability insurance (SSDI) or supplemental security income (SSI) benefits are denied, which is very common, you should contact our disability advocacy team at Citizens Disability to make your appeal. If you have proper re...
In order to prevent the application of a disability benefit, insight in the background of these applicants is needed.To assess the expectations of Dutch claimants applying for a disability benefit, the rationale behind these expectations and the value of these expectations in the process of ...
Paez and Arendt (2014, p. 187) found that hotel and restaurant managers “had a somewhat positive attitude toward training and working with people with disabilities”, though severity of disability is the strongest predictor of employment (Bush & Tassé, 2017). However, caution should be ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially devastating for people with disabilities, as well as other members of marginalized communities. Indeed, an emerging body of scholarship has revealed striking disparities experienced by people with disabilities. In particular, scholars have shined a light on iss...
Full results are found in Supplemental Tables4–7. Being male (vs. female), being limited by an illness or disability (vs. no limiting illness/disability) and having access to a communal garden (vs. no access to any garden or outside space) were consistently associated with worse mental we...
in Canada by applying a government perspective framework that captures lost tax revenues and increased government spending on social benefit programs.Methods An age-specific prevalence-based model was built to quantify the fiscal burden of disease for government attributed to ...
may give rise to disability [3,4]. Relatedly, according to the European Commission’sReport on the Impact of Demographic Change, people aged over 65 account for the majority of the 50 million EU citizens who suffer from two or more chronic conditions [2] (p. 18). Therefore, while Europea...
(prone position) pain, heart rate (HR), time domain parameter (rMSSD), diameters of the Poincaré plot (SD1, SD2), stress score (SS), and sympathetic/parasympathetic (S/PS) ratio were investigated. In both groups, significant statistical differences were found in perceived pain and in all ...
Moreover, rates of long-term unemployment, defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as being unemployed for 12 months or more, are 77% higher than before the 2008 economic crisis [4]. In Canada and the United States (U.S.) in particular, the proportion ...