Frank Joyce, a registered nurse, has been appointed senior director of UMass Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services, following a successful stint as interim senior director. In this senior ...

The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall form an ad hoc planning committee to plan and host a public workshop that will facilitate a ...

The workflow for Social Security disability benefits determination has historically been a slow one, with hospitals and patients often waiting months for records to be requested, collected and ...

Traditionally, the Social Security Administration (SSA) followed a pretty comprehensive process to evaluate disability claims. The in-depth nature of the process is meant to provide accurate ...

The age and vocational factors come into play in determining whether or not an individual who can no longer perform their past work is able to adjust to other work. However, ability to adjust to work ...

In a recent published (precedential) decision, Gormley v. Gormley, the Appellate Division cleared up confusion between two prior cases that dealt with the impact of a determination of disability by ...

The medical model of disability locates the problem of disability at the person, and it operates in the context of disease, disorders, and impairments. The social model of disability understands ...