Disability

  • Read more: Mental Health and Climate Change: When a Global Crisis and Planetary Emergency Collide
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    Mental Health and Climate Change: When a Global Crisis and Planetary Emergency Collide

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    The range of adverse mental health effects resulting from climate change include triggering or exacerbating anxiety, depression, grief, and suicide. Natural phenomena from heatwaves and droughts to floods and fires that are fueled by climate change cause trauma, distress, and other mental health conditions. So can chronic, slow-onset effects of global warming, such as water and food insecurity, community breakdown, and conflict. Members of marginalized groups, especially Indigenous peoples, feel these effects in unique and especially acute…

  • Read more: Trump’s 2024 Triumph: A Wild Card for Seniors’ Health Care Coverage?
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    Trump’s 2024 Triumph: A Wild Card for Seniors’ Health Care Coverage?

    By Abeer Malik In an ideal world, everyone has a “safety net” — a reliable layer of support that catches us when life’s challenges become overwhelming. For many Americans, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a crucial piece of that safety net, providing access to affordable health care, expanded coverage options, and support for…

  • Read more: Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics

    Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics

    Editors: I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers, and Michael Ashley SteinPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: May 2020 This edited volume is based on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2018 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to construct a twenty-first century conception of disablement that resolves the tension about whether being disabled is merely neutral or must be…

  • Read more: Love and Liberalism in Surrogate Decision-Making
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    Love and Liberalism in Surrogate Decision-Making

    By James Toomey If you are supposed to make a legally binding decision on behalf of someone incapacitated by dementia, chances are the law will tell you to apply the “substituted judgment” standard—you will be asked to make the decision the person for whom you are deciding would have made, if they had capacity. But…

  • Read more: Capacity and Medical Decision-Making in First- and Third-Person Perspectives
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    Capacity and Medical Decision-Making in First- and Third-Person Perspectives

    By James Toomey Imagine that you were to develop dementia and someone else had to make medical decisions on your behalf. How would you want them to decide? Then suppose that you had to make medical decisions on behalf of another person with dementia. Would you think about decision-making in the same way? A new…

  • Read more: Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities: Toward Intersectional Solutions to Transform Policing
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    Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities: Toward Intersectional Solutions to Transform Policing

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    Persons with disabilities (PWDs) across their lifespan face higher risk for arrest and incarceration due to extensively documented discriminatory law enforcement practices. According to research in the American Journal of Public Health, PWDs are 44% more likely to be arrested by age 28 than those without disabilities—a problem based in part on unfounded, ableist notions about PWDs’ propensity toward…