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August 7, 2013 | Story
People with severe disabilities are learning to express themselves through art, thanks to the passion of Tim Lefens, named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leader in 1998.
August 7, 2013 | Story
David Carey, a RWJF Community Health Leader who is quadriplegic, advocates for people with disabilities in Arizona and helped launch Inspire, a human services cooperative in which members decide what services they get.
January 24, 2013 | Story
When Gretchen Kimberly Berland entered medical school in 1992, she assumed she would leave behind her first career as a television documentary producer.
March 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Missed the Reelabilities Film Festival in New York, Washington or Philadelphia? The festival, which features invited films showing the lives, loves, triumphs and challenges of individuals and artists with different disabilities, is on the road with ...
February 20, 2012 | New Public Health Post
NewPublicHealth writers are on the road a lot, so we appreciated a recent column in The New York Times, that offered helpful ideas for older flyers. Truth is, many of the tips—carts to speed you to your gate, ordering a wheel chair from an airline, ...
January 3, 2010 | Journal Article
Every year, falls are reported for an estimated one-third of community-dwelling adults over the age of 65. This article reviews the existing literature to identify risk factors that are most predictive of falls. MEDLINE (1966-2004) and CINAHL (1982- ...
January 27, 2006 | Program Results Report
Statewide directors of Parent to Parent programs, representing the national Parent to Parent movement, investigated the possibility of creating a formal partnership between the Parent to Parent movement and the Grassroots Consortium on Disabilities.
March 1, 2003 | Program Results Report
The Georgetown University School of Medicine, Mathematica Policy Research and the National Center for Health Statistics at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services planned, implemented and analyzed the Follow-up Survey to the National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplement (NHIS-D).
August 27, 2003 | Program Results Report
The Alpha One Center for Independent Living in Portland, Maine, created the Home to the Community project to help people with disabilities leave nursing homes and reestablish their lives in the community.
December 1, 2001 | Program Results Report
UCLA examined the experience of children served by a California program that provides non-medical, personal assistance services to disabled persons.