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Addressing the Human Rights Challenges of Older Persons with Disabilities

2023-07-14

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The World Health Organization has reported that approximately 16% of the global population, over 1.3 billion people worldwide, had some form of disability, and that an additional 190 million people (3.8% of people over 15 years of age) experience serious difficulties in functioning normally on a daily basis. In the US, 61 million, or 26% of, adult Americans have some form of disability, and 2 in 5 adults over the...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4504570

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