This article summarizes the demographic and economic characteristics of the half million persons on the rolls of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program in January 1981 whose only payment was a federally administered State supplement. All of these persons were ineligible for a Federal SSI payment because their countable income from other sources exceeded $258 (the Federal benefit rate pl...

Whenever people move through their environments they do not move randomly. Instead, they usually follow specific trajectories or motion patterns corresponding to their intentions. Knowledge about such patterns may enable a mobile robot to robustly keep track of the position of the persons in its environment or to improve its behavior. This paper proposes a technique for learning collections of ...

The discovery of effective interventions to prevent or delay disability in older persons is a public health priority. Most likely to benefit from such interventions are frail individuals who are not yet disabled and those with early disability who are at high risk of progression. In spite of this frail older persons have often been excluded from research on the assumption that they would not to...

The lack of inclusive housing in Australia contributes to the marginalization and exclusion of people with disability and older people from family and community life. The Australian government has handed over the responsibility of increasing the supply of inclusive housing to the housing industry through an agreed national access standard and a voluntary strategy. Voluntary strategies have not ...

There are fragmentations in Iran’s health insurance system. Multiple health insurance funds exist, without adequate provisions for transfer or redistribution of cross subsidy among them. Multiple risk pools, including several private secondary insurance schemes, have resulted in a tiered health insurance system with inequitable benefit packages for different segments of the population. Also fra...