Meeting

Workshop: Disability in America

When:: August 1, 2005 (8:30 AM Eastern)
Where:: Keck Center • 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 Map

Topics:: Biomedical and Health Research, Public Health, Select Populations and Health Disparities
Activity:: Disability in America
Board:: Board on Health Sciences Policy

On August 1, 2005 the Committee on Disability in America held a workshop at the Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, DC to discuss a subset of topics related to disability. Its participants included researchers, clinicians, social service professionals, policy experts, and consumer representatives. A summary of the workshop, entitled Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look, was published in February of 2006.

The workshop examined the following topics:

--methodological and policy issues related to the definition, measurement, and monitoring of disability and health over time;
--trends in the amount, types, and causes of disability;
--disability across the age spectrum and in the context of normal aging; and
--secondary health conditions