Medical Xpress

Physical and mental capacity linked to disability before death

For many older adults, aging well means remaining independent—being able to do everyday activities like buying groceries or cooking dinner without help. A new Yale School of Medicine study suggests ...
UNESCO

Disability assessment capacity building workshop for service providers held

The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa supported the National Association of Societies for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH) in partnership with the Zimbabwe National Association for Mental ...
HelpAge International

New capacity-building programme to deliver better humanitarian response for older people and people with disabilities

HelpAge is starting a three-year programme to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian agencies to deliver age and disability inclusive emergency response, as part of the innovative portfolio of ...
Medical Xpress

Early onset of menopause linked to reduced work capacity and increased risk of disability pension, finds Finnish study

A recent study conducted by the University of Oulu, Finland, has revealed that early onset of menopause is associated with reduced work capacity among women at the age of 46. The research further ...
The Guardian

Younger disability pension recipients' capacity to work to be scrutinised

Budget measure to cut welfare spending could affect 30,000 people under 35 Younger people receiving the disability support pension are set to have their ability to work reviewed, under measures to ...
Independent.ie

Sunbeam House Services calls on Wicklow TDs to help Action Plan for the Disability Capacity Review before Budget 2023

THE CEO of Sunbeam House Services has written a letter sent to all of Wicklow’s TDs and Councillors asking for their support in calls for the urgent request for the publication of the Action Plan for ...