COVID-19DisabilitiesImpactRapid reviewRehabilitationBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic changes in the lives of the general population. People with physical disabilities, who commonly encounter daily challenges such as barriers to community mobility, reduced access to healthcare services and ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities were at a higher risk of lower psychosocial well-being than people without disabilities. It is, therefore, of great importance to investigate whether the pandemic has exacerbated this difference. Objective...
People with intellectual disabilities may be less able to follow infection-prevention measures such as masking and social distancing, according to the researchers. Also, they're more likely to have other health problems that contribute to more severe COVID-19. "We need to understand more about wh...
Most doctors and nurses know littleabout the complexitiesof treating people with intellectual disabilities, many of whom also have complicated medical frailties. Overwhelmed, overworked, and exhausted medical providers may not be able to take the time to learn how to care for patients such as my...
Discrimination is an age-old'illness'irrespective of its context.Stigma is a common factor that has been associated with disability and coronavirus disease 2019.The public health impact of stigma on differently-abled people during this pandemic is not known and it is a poorly investigated and negle...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), write the directors of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (IDDRC) Network, a nationwide group funded
COVID-19Case-fatalityDevelopmental disabilityIntellectual disabilityUS statesBackground There is evidence from two US states that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at more severe risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research has not explored whether this increased risk is ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of our daily lives, but its impacts are especially acute for people living with disabilities, who may struggle with challenges like finding reliable and safe in-home care or physically adapting to enhanced
Relationships Petri Embregts As pointed at in the introduction of this book, COVID-19 and the resulting crisis has revealed a number of shortcomings in the old common, such as an insufficient level of diversity in society in general and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in ...
But I want to dispel the notion that it is something about people with disabilities that puts them at increased risk.We know from researchthat certainhealth conditionsmore common in disabled adults make contracting COVID-19 more deadly. However, there are also common mistakes made in health care...