The Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs

Abstract

The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminating in the Americans With Disabilities Act. Disability is now understood as a dynamic process, Social Security must comprehend that process to plan adequately for the times ahead. The Dynamics of Disability provides expert analysis recommendations in key areas: * Understanding the current social, economic, physical environmental factors in determining eligibility for disability benefits. * Developing implementing a monitoring system to measure track trends in work disability. * Improving the process for making decisions on disability claims. * Building Social Securitya (TM)s capacity for conducting needed research. This book provides a wealth of detail on the workings of the Social Security disability program, recent emerging disability trends, issues previous experience in researching disability, more. It will be of primary interest to federal policy makers, the Congress, researchersa and it will be useful to state disability officials, medical rehabilitation professionals, the disability community.

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