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Providing evidence for a new online MS assessment tool, researchers discovered the overlooked subtype in patients of all ages ...
Kids with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 9/8/2021 | 7m 48sVideo has Closed Captions| CC 61 million adult Americans live with some sort of physical, sensory, or intellectual disability.
Cognitive disability emerged as the most prevalent disability in the United States in 2022, affecting 13.9% of adults. This is according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...
What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional state of cognitive decline that is below the average age-related fall off in mental skills but above the threshold for dementia. It is also called ...
People with cognitive disabilities – like autism, attention deficit and memory loss – are less satisfied with their health care than those in the general population, according to a ...
Older adults who experienced delirium while hospitalized for COVID-19 had increases in functional disability and cognitive impairment in the 6 months after discharge, according to a prospective ...
People with cognitive disabilities – like autism, attention deficit and memory loss – are less satisfied with their health care than those in the general population, according to a study ...
Hearing is an obvious example, but autism, ADHD, and dyslexia also illustrate that, and now all are associated with cognitive disability too. Our sensory systems do deteriorate as we age.
Associations were seen for in-hospital delirium and both increased functional disability (rate ratio, 1.32) and increased cognitive impairment (odds ratio, 2.48) 6 months postdischarge.