Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. To receive SSDI or SSI disability benefits, an individual must meet the statutory definition of disability, which is "the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity [SGA] by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months." SSA uses a five-step sequential process to determine whether an adult applicant meets this definition. Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities examines ways to collect information about an individual's physical and mental (cognitive and noncognitive) functional abilities relevant to work requirements. This report discusses the types of information that support findings of limitations in functional abilities relevant to work requirements, and provides findings and conclusions regarding the collection of information and assessment of functional abilities relevant to work requirements. --

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• Authors: Board On Health Care Services, Committee on Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
• Assisted by: Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert (Editor), Carol Mason Spicer (Editor), Paul A Volberding (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780309489386
• ISBN: 978-0-309-48938-6
• No. of pages: 444
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Politik und Staat, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Medical / Nursing, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare