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Feinberg Post-Doctoral Fellowships Bring Healthcare Expertise to Capitol Hill -Applications Open for 2021 Positions
Both Feinberg Post-Doctoral Fellowships feel they’ve gained a new respect for the political process and the people who devote their lives to shaping healthcare policy. And they’ve added new skills that have already changed the trajectories of their careers.
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Person-Centered Planning Central to Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities to Lead Full Lives
By the 1980s, some social scientists and disability advocates were making the case that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) should have more say in where and how they lived. Yet when social workers asked people with IDD those questions, the residents were often at a loss.
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2020 Job Market Turmoil Hits Those with Disabilities Harder, Undoing Many Hard-Won Gains
The employment challenges faced by those with disabilities are well documented. They’re often last to be hired and first to be fired.
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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
When a person chooses to self-direct their Medicaid services they make decisions about and manage their own home and community-based services (HCBS) and supports.
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Experience Living with a Disability Helps Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Peer Mentors Connect with Patients
Chicagoan Jorge Alfaro has been a peer mentor for 15 years. He was injured by an accidental gunshot at the age of nine, before the peer mentoring program existed. Now he is a peer mentor for other patients.
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Working with Parkinson’s: Complex Questions Surrounding the Decision to Disclose Diagnosis
After receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), many people assume that their working lives are over -- or soon will be. But many want to continue to work, either because they are in their prime earning years, they need the insurance coverage, or they love what they do and thrive on the stimulation of being around other people.
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Meet Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System research assistant, Kelly Keel
Meet Kelly Keel, her role involves working with people who are at an especially difficult time in their lives– spinal cord injury patients in inpatient rehabilitation soon after their injuries.
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Experience Living with a Disability Helps Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Peer Mentors Connect with Patients
LIFE Center Manager Lisa Rosen co-founded the peer mentoring program in 2003. There had always been some informal mentoring going on as patients talked with other patients or hospital volunteers with disabilities, but Rosen realized there was a need for a more structured program.
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The ADA 30 Years Later: Despite Improvements to Accessibility, Challenges for People With Physical Disabilities Remain
Environmental modifications have reduced barriers for people with physical disabilities to work in many office buildings and attend classes in public schools and universities.
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The Mental Health Waiver System for Home and Community-based Services
Mental health has been at the forefront of discussions throughout the COVID pandemic. However, mental health challenges were a common experience long before quarantine, social distancing, and masking took a toll on the mental health of Americans.
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Disparities Among Direct Care Workers May Impact Services
Despite the high demand for DCW, jobs in the field often pay poverty-level wages and provide little opportunity for advancement.
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