disabled

(noun)

those who are disabled, regarded collectively or as a social group.

Related Terms

Examples of disabled in the following topics:

  • Civil Rights of People with Disabilities

    • Disabled Americans face limited access to public places and institutions that civil rights legislation seeks to address.
    • Outfitting trains and buses with ramps in order to improve access to transportation for disabled persons is an example of a measure designed to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
    • Disability is an umbrella term that includes impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions.
    • Disabled persons face unique social challenges that may limit their participation in civic life.
    • Throughout the 1970s and 80s, the disability rights act gained increasing visibility and a number of policy successes, including increased accessibility of public places and increased resources for people with developmental disabilities.

  • Civil Rights of the Elderly

    • The elderly, or senior citizens, are vulnerable to civil rights abuses due to a propensity for sickness, disability, and poverty.
    • Because of a propensity for illness, disability, and lack of employment, the elderly are faced with unique civil rights challenges.

  • Medicaid and Medicare

    • Medicaid is a health program for people and families with low incomes and Medicare is for people over 65 and disabled.
    • Medicaid serves people who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, including low-income adults, their children, and people with certain disabilities.
    • It guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older in addition to younger people with disabilities and people with advanced renal disease.
    • Core eligibility groups of poor children and parents are most likely to be enrolled in managed care, while the elderly and disabled eligibility groups more often remain in traditional "fee for service" Medicaid.

  • The 25th Amendment

    • The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.

  • Income Security Policy and Policy Making

    • This is financial assistance provided for those who are unable to cover basic needs (such as food, clothing, and housing) due to poverty or lack of income because of unemployment, sickness, disability, or caring for children.
    • Several countries have special schemes, administered with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need (for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities, and very old people).

  • Equality

    • For example, sex, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, origin, caste or class, income or property, language, religion, convictions, opinions, health or disability must not result in unequal treatment under the law and should not reduce opportunities unjustifiably.
    • Equality of opportunity - as an ideal - ensures that important jobs will go to those persons who are most qualified, rather than go to people for arbitrary or irrelevant reasons, such as circumstances of birth, upbringing, friendship ties to whoever is in power, religion, gender, ethnicity, race, caste, or "involuntary personal attributes" such as disability, age, or sexual preferences.

  • The Elderly

    • Social security is a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.

  • The First Spouse

    • Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad; Betty Ford supported women's rights; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign; Barbara Bush promoted literacy; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U.S.; and Laura Bush supported women's rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.
    • Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad; Betty Ford supported women's rights; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign; Barbara Bush promoted literacy; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U.S.; and Laura Bush supported women's rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.

  • The Eighth Amendment and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

    • The Court overturned a punishment called cadena temporal, which mandated "hard and painful labor," shackling for the duration of incarceration, and permanent civil disabilities.
    • The Court overturned a punishment called cadena temporal, which mandated "hard and painful labor," shackling for the duration of incarceration and permanent civil disabilities.

  • Health Care Policy

    • Government programs directly cover 27.8% of the population (83 million), including the elderly, disabled, children, veterans, and some of the poor, and federal law mandates public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay.
    • Also in 2007, Medicare provided health care coverage for 41.4 million elderly and disabled Americans.