Aging and Disability Adult Consumer Survey National Report 2021-2022
May 09, 2023National Core Indicators—Aging and Disabilities (NCI-AD™) is a survey run collaboratively by two organizations focused on helping states develop innovative service systems: Advancing States and the Human Services Research Institute. This report is the most comprehensive and representative assessment of self-reported outcomes older adults and people with physical disabilities receiving publicly funded Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS)since 2018.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Updates Health Equity Image
Dec 07, 2022The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) conducted a survey that led results to create both an updated bike graphic and a graphic based on an entirely new concept, which uses a curb to visualize the issue and introduces different characteristics of individuals and their environments. RWJF used a human-centered design approach, ensuring the process was transparent and sharing drafts with a broad, diverse set of people including RWJF staff and consultants, members of our diversity-related committees, and many others. RWJF gathered feedback from people with lived experiences with disability, parents of children facing accessibility challenges, and people in many fields and sectors.
Accessibility and Disability Equity Library
Nov 14, 2022Health Equity Libraries on Community Commons build capacity for changemakers to advance equity for a specific priority population by sharing relevant resources. Priority populations are exploration avenues on Community Commons that represent diverse groups, communities, demographics, identities, statuses, and people with lived experiences. They connect users directly with populations of interest, lift up important underserved groups, and help root our work in equity and justice.
Health Affairs Releases Issue on Disability and Health
Oct 04, 2022On October 3, 2022, Health Affairs published a theme issue on disability and health. The issue includes original research, analyses, and commentaries that provides a multidimensional perspective on disability and health.
How Food Inflation Adds to the Burdens Disabled People Carry
May 09, 2023While many Americans have struggled with rising food prices this year, the pressures are even more intense for disabled people who have to balance additional constraints—and whose needs are sometimes more expensive, and more complex, than those of the general population.
Surgeon General Releases Advisory on the Health Effects of Loneliness
May 09, 2023This month US Surgeon General VADM Dr. Vivek Murthy released “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community.” The Advisory details the cost of social isolation to health and the benefits of social connection
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Articles of Interest
- A Primer on Stress Management
- Exercise Guidelines for People with Disabilities
- Can Disability, Chronic Conditions, Health and Wellness Coexist?
- Benefits and Barriers To Fitness For Children With Disabilities
- Health Promotion for People With Disabilities: The Emerging Paradigm Shift From Disability Prevention to Prevention of Secondary Conditions
- Best Practice of Inclusive Services: The Value of Inclusion
- Motivation Through Goal Setting
- Health Promotion for People with Physical, Cognitive and Sensory Disabilities: An Emerging National Priority
- Therapeutic Recreation Services
- Access Board Issues New Accessibility Guidelines
- Health Disparities, Equity, and Disability
- Community Health Inclusion Sustainability Planning Guide
- Exercise is Medicine
- Recreation Access Rights
- Research on Physical Activity and Disability: an Emerging National Priority
- Playgrounds for All
- Stages of Change
- Physical Therapist's Perspective of Community Integration
- Municipal Partners for Inclusive Recreation: A Model of Success in St. Louis County
- Physical Activity & People With Disabilities INFOGRAPHIC
- Restoring Play to All Children
- Complete Streets
- Planning for Inclusion: Implementing an Accessibility Management Program in a Parks and Recreation Business Model
- Exercise Intervention Research on Persons with Disabilities
- Community Inclusion Model: City of Reno
- Community Health Inclusion Index
- Livable Communities
- Examining Health Disparities among Adults with Disabilities and What It Means for Public Health
- Museums, Zoos and Aquariums: Enhancing Accessibility
- Inclusive Programming through Policy