A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Disability insurance should be a key part of your overall financial planning. Insurance is designed to cover losses that are too big to cover with your own out-of-pocket funds. Life insurance provides ...

Swenor is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center. Landes is an associate professor of sociology and O’Hanley faculty scholar at Syracuse University. Hall is ...

Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, ...

Mobility is the ability to move. A disability is the result of an impairment that affects a person’s ability to carry out tasks. For example, a person may find it difficult to walk very far due to ...

If an employee wears glasses, has high blood pressure or was once diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, is he or she disabled? Based on recent amendments to California’s disability legislation, ...

Social Security employees are often asked about our disability programs. Disability insurance is an important part of the income protection that every worker and his or her family has under Social ...

The military's definition of combat-related disabilities was narrowed in a little-noticed regulation change in March. In a letter to the 1.3-million-member Disabled American Veterans, William J. Carr, ...