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The Future of Disability in America
promoting models of coordinated chronic care and other strategies for improving the transition of young people from pediatric to adult health care, 8
public policies to improve health care facility and equipment accessibility, 170 –175
reducing barriers to health insurance for people with disabilities, 7
Access to health insurance
disability and risk adjustment of payments to health plans, 239 –248
health insurance coverage for people with disabilities, 224 –235
health insurance markets and their limits for people with disabilities, 235 –239
recommendations, 248 –252
and the role of risk-adjusted payments to health plans, 222 –252
Access to legal services, 470 –471
Access to personal assistive services, financial, 265 –273
Access to telecommunications technology
ADA, 491 –516
federal laws, 482 –491
Hearing Aid Compatibility Act, 486 –491
introduction, 478 –482
key laws and policies, 478 –518
policy implications of technological change, 516 –517
Telecommunications for the Disabled Act, 482 –486
Accessibility
enhancing through universal design of mainstream technologies, 200 –203
of health care facilities, improving, 6 –7 , 179 –182
of technologies, 2 , 4 , 13 –14
Accessible design, defining, 189
Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), 132
ACP. See American College of Physicians
Action, defining, 44
Activities, defining, 38
Activities of daily living (ADL), 50 , 54 , 82 –83 , 89 –92 , 97 , 227 , 261 , 267 , 413 –415
Activity limitations, 73 –75
clarifying, 42 –44
defining, 38
ADA. See Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA Accessibility Guidelines, 173 , 493 , 507
Adaptive assistive devices, defining, 187
ADL. See Activities of daily living
Administrative responses, to continuing problems with ADA compliance, 175 –177
Adolescent medicine, 105
Adolescent transitions
complexity of, 104
income support and work, 112 –114
Medicaid and other public health programs, 108 –110
other environmental factors, 114 –115
populations “at risk” for, 102 –103
public policy and other environmental factors, 107 –115
transition support and public schools, 110 –112
Adoption of available technologies, 211 –216
Adoption of the ICF, 42 –47
adding quality of life to the framework, 44 –45
categorizing personal factors, 45
clarifying activity limitations and participation restrictions, 42 –44
as the conceptual framework for disability monitoring and research, 3 , 5
depicting functioning and disability as dynamic processes, 46 –47
developing environmental factors, 46
recognizing secondary conditions, 46
recommendations concerning, 59 –62
Adult care models.
See also Younger adults with disabilities
for organizing pediatric and adult care for individuals with chronic health conditions or disabilities, 118 –119
Adult health care providers, as a barrier to successful transition planning and outcomes, 126
Age, demographic trends and increasing disability, 17 –19
Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), 4 , 11 , 62 , 158 –159 , 228 , 293 , 307
Agency on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 317