Disability Management

Disability Management Perspectives: Developing Accommodating Work Environments through Disability Management

Case management of disability claimants.

DR. BOREN: Our next speaker, I’m very proud to say, is one of my colleagues from CNA Insurance,Joan Herzog whose in charge of case management. Joan got her bachelor’s in nursing from Loyola University here in Chicago. She got her master’s from St. Francis of Joliet, is a city a little southwest from us. Joan has been very active in all the organizations for case review and she’s going to talk t...

Disability management, return to work and treatment.

Individuals with severely disabling mental illness receive more benefit from supported employment initiatives than from other vocational services, but these initiatives show variable job tenure and low implementation by governments. For those with less severely disabling mental illnesses, such as depression, evidence-based treatment results in substantial restoration of job function, and restor...

Disability centered approach in smart space management

The recent convergence of ubiquitous computing and context-aware computing has seen a considerable rise in interest in applications that exploit aspects of the contextual environment to enhance implicit user interaction, offer services, present information, tailor application behavior or trigger adaptation. However they are often insufficient to provide adequate environments for people with spe...

Explanation and management of neurological disability.

Patients are often told of the diagnosis of a neurological disability in less than ideal circumstances such that they may not fully comprehend it. Clinicians must be able to sense when the patient's understanding is imperfect even if superficially he or she appears to take in what has been said and its implications. A programme of further counselling is often required to follow this up. A criti...