Housing tenure and affordability and mental health following disability acquisition in adulthood

AM Kavanagh, Z Aitken, E Baker… - Social science & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Acquiring a disability in adulthood is associated with a reduction in mental health and
access to secure and affordable housing is associated with better mental health. We …

Analyzing the impact of disability legislation in Canada and the United States

K Kovacs Burns, GL Gordon - Journal of Disability Policy …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Experiences with disability legislation are different between Canada and the United States,
but both countries have experiences to share regarding trends and best practices, as well as …

Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities

Z Aitken, E Baker, H Badland, K Mason… - Disability & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Access to adequate, safe, secure, accessible and affordable housing is a fundamental
human right and one stipulated in the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Persons …

Housing cost burden, poverty status, and economic hardship among low-income families

Y Mimura - Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2008 - Springer
This study examined the relative effects of housing cost burden versus poverty thresholds to
explain the economic hardship of low-income families and compared the differences in …

Poverty and Disability: A State-Level Geospatial Analysis

PR Lawrence, RK Anderson - Clinical Nursing Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Individuals with disabilities are a growing yet understudied population. Nurses are in a
prime position to address social determinants of health (SDOH), which is defined as the …

The house next door: A comparison of residences by disability status using new measures in the American Housing Survey

DW Hoffman, GA Livermore - Cityscape, 2012 - JSTOR
Using new measures in the American Housing Survey, we document housing differences by
disability status. We compare housing and neighborhood characteristics for people with and …

Disability status, housing tenure, and residential attainment in Metropolitan America

S Friedman, K Hamer-Small, W Choudary - Social Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
In 2010, 18.7 percent of the US non-institutionalized population had a disability. Despite the
existence of the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA), which prohibits housing …

Social and environmental determinants of the health of people with disabilities

E Emerson, Z Aitken, H Badland… - Handbook on Ageing …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Over their life course, people with disabilities have poorer physical and mental health and
die sooner than their non-disabled peers. One of the key questions for researchers in this …

Fernando M. Torres-Gil, UCLA Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy

L Salvador-Carulla - api.taylorfrancis.com
The study of ageing with disability is relatively new. Research and scholarship on ageing
with disability dates roughly back to the 1980s, when trends in ageing among persons with …

Poverty of disability households and antipoverty policies in the United States and Korea

HJ Jo, R Kulys - Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This study compares the income of households with a disabled member to that of
households without a disabled member in the US and Korea using secondary analyses. It …