Health Care (Disabilities) « Disabilities – Other Issues
Articles
- Coverage Options for People with Disabilities (healthcare.gov)
If you have a special health care need — like if you’re terminally ill, need help with daily activities, get regular care at home or in another community setting, live in a long-term care facility or group home, or have a condition that limits your ability to work — or if you have a disability, you have a number of options for health coverage.
- Health: Access to Care (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund)
People with disabilities tend to be in poorer health and experience a higher prevalence of secondary conditions while also using preventative services at lower rates than people who do not have disabilities. People with disabilities experience more problems accessing health care than other groups, and these difficulties increase for those with the most significant disabilities and who are in the poorest health.
- Medical Care Often Inaccessible to Disabled Patients (Joseph Shapiro – AAPD – Sept. 2007)
Take a moment to consider a basic part of a doctor's office: the exam table. Frail elderly people often can't climb up on that hard, plastic table with the crinkly, white paper.
- Medication management for people with disabilities (9/25/19)
The right approach to medication management empowers you to get the most benefit from your prescriptions and take charge of your healthcare alongside your healthcare team.
- Neglected for Too Long: Dental Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (National Council on Disability – 11/21/17)
This short NCD issue brief provides insights into the lack of dental care many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) continue to experience due to a shortage of properly trained dental care providers.
- The Current State of Health Care for People with Disabilities
A letter to the President on behalf of the National Council of Disability with a report on a 2007 study undertaken to focus the nation's attention on the health care disparities experienced by people with disabilities.
Publications
Resources: Websites
- Health: Access to Care (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund)
Studies have shown that people with disabilities tend to be in poorer health and experience a higher prevalence of secondary conditions while also using preventative services at lower rates than people who do not have disabilities.
- Disability Health Data System (DHDS) (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention )
To provide access to state-level health and demographic data about adults with disabilities. It is searchable by condition, state, or key topics and indicators.
