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Independent Living

Independent living supports dignity and participation for people with disabilities or aging adults. The National Academies study policies and technologies that enhance autonomy. 

Featured Publications

Featured work

A Data Infrastructure for Measuring the Care Economy

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Progress

Digital Health Joint Initiative

Other

In Progress

Workplace Barriers, Solutions, and Policies for STEM and STEM Education Professionals and Postsecondary Students with Disabilities

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Units

Social and Economic Systems Program Area

Oversight Unit

In Progress
Happy and smiling multiracial family with grandparents by the beach in New England

Center for Health, People, and Places (CHPP)

Oversight Unit

In Progress

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Oversight Unit

In Progress

Health Care and Public Health Program Area

Oversight Unit

In Progress
Extensive series of patients, doctors and nurses of various ages and ethnicities in a modern exam room. Used for: A Long COVID Definition A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences

Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence

Roundtable/Forum

Recently Completed

Committee on Population

Standing Committee

In Progress

Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness

Roundtable/Forum

In Progress

Action Collaborative: Mapping Progress and Opportunities to Inform Priorities to Improve the Quality of Serious Illness Research and Care

Action Collaborative

In Progress
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