Philippa Clarke, Ph.D. contributed to two new works that examine the accessibility of municipal streets and their association with health outcomes. Clarke is the IDEAL RRTC’s lead researcher on the built environment and healthy aging.
Join the U-M Center for Disability Health and Wellness as we host the inaugural Disability Research Symposium on October 2, 2020 from 8:30AM to 12:30PM ET.
Michael McKee discusses how health care institutions can maintain accessible care for our deaf and hard of hearing patients while maintaining COVID-19 safety measures, in a new piece published in the JAMA Otolaryngology.
"They care for Michigan’s most vulnerable. We should care for them," writes Meade, outlining policies Michigan can support to care for the state's caregivers.
New findings about disparities in health and income are reported in a new paper in JAMA Internal Medicine, by a team from the University of Michigan and University College London, including IDEAL RRTC faculty Philippa Clarke, Ph.D.
Warriors on Wheels (WoW) of Greater Detroit—an advisory partner of the IDEAL RRTC—received a grant award from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to expand their outreach to people with disabilities in Southeast Michigan.
A new study from IDEAL RRTC faculty Mark D. Peterson, Ph.D., and Neil Kamdar, M.A., finds adults with traumatic spinal cord injury are at an increased risk of developing mental health disorders and secondary chronic diseases compared to adults without the condition. The paper is published in the May 2020 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Pediatric-onset disabilities (PODs) are conditions that start before birth or during childhood.
The ongoing COVID-19 health crisis is stressful for everyone; however, the stress placed on the disability community has been particularly acute. One particularly salient concern expressed by this community is fear of being viewed as expendable or as undeserving of equal healthcare access by healthcare providers