BACKGROUND The disabled population constitutes a class of people needing special care and necessitating important economic and social effort. METHODS In this paper, using specific parameter settings, partial differential equations are used to model the temporal change of the proportion of the disabled population in Morocco. RESULTS Combining different forms and values of the parameters, a n...

As the Western Australian hotel sector continues to look for new opportunities, people with disabilities are being acknowledged as a consumer group with considerable revenue earning potential. The authors report on findings from the initial stages of a threepart methodology aimed at investigating current awareness of and provision for the disability issue within the Western Australian hotel sec...

Use of a carefully designed refusal conversion protocol at first follow-up in a longitudinal study of a representative sample of over 4,000 older people was investigated. Respondents who refused initially did not differ from respondents by age or gender but were more functionally independent, citing disinterest most frequently as the reason for refusal. The protocol was successful in convincing...

Improving the health and well-being of people with disabilities is fraught with challenges. W Aubrey Webson tells Fiona Fleck about the progress made over the last two decades.

Despite the existence of a large volume of literature on subjective well-being (SWB) of the general population, very few studies have focused on individuals with disabilities. The present study uses data on 24,036 Canadians with disabilities to investigate factors affecting their SWB. It found that SWB, measured here by level of happiness, decreases with severity of disability but is independen...