Articles in the Disabilities Category

Three kinds of Disability-Functional Disability, Situational Disability, Elderly Disability
Posted in Disabilities on 19 June 2010

elderly disability Three kinds of Disability Functional Disability Situational Disability Elderly Disability Three kinds of Disability Functional Disability, Situational Disability, Elderly Disability

When somebody asks us, what are the dissimilar types of disabilities? The reply that comes to our mind is people using a wheel chair, those using a white cane, those wearing hearing aids or those using crutches. Yes, these are the most normally called types of disabilities but they are not the merely ones. Disability is a broad term and includes not merely functional disabilities i.e. physical, sensory and mental disabilities but also situational as well as elderly disabilities. For example, we may not deem some one wearing glasses i.e. a person having near or Far sightedness as disabled. But near and Far sightedness is one of the types of visual disability.

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Elder American people are more sexually active
Posted in Americans, Disabilities, Health, older people, survey on 11 September 2007

old couple Elder American people are more sexually active

It is truly little surprising news that according to the recent study done on American people it is been come in light that elders American peoples are more active in sexual relation ship.
According to this report that older one are more interested in sexual relationship it has change our whole mentality. We all think that our elders are so calm about sex but if we believe to this report published by the study done on older citizen of America our mentality has gone changed.
According to the survey done on elder American citizen
You will really get surprise that nearly more than 73% people of age between 57 to 64 years tell that till now they are interested in sexual matters. Not only this people of 65 to 74 nearly 53% people said that they are also very much active to sexual relationship and people of age 75 to 85Â nearly 26% people are interested
But in case of women it is totally different according to the saying of all the women of elder age it is been said that they not so much active as compare to older people.

27.6 inches legs: Unidentified disease
Posted in Disabilities, Disease, Health on 15 June 2007

health 450 27.6 inches legs: Unidentified disease

If there exist ‘x’ number of health diseases, then we have ‘y’ no. of ready solutions to it. But it seems it doesn’t go for Wang (23) suffering from this scary unidentified disease in Xuzhou, east China’s Jiangsu province.

Wang Cheng (R) sitting next to her mother contracted this disease when she was seven. The disease has caused her legs to continue to grow, with the widest part of her leg currently measuring 70 cm ( 27.6 inches).

This is a call for medical advancement to invent a rational treatment for the same. Otherwise it’s a shame on the advancement of technology that is busy making nuclear arms and keeping this disease under the carpet.