Hearing aids now depend on smartphone apps for basic functions, creating calibration loops where medical devices face ...

JAIPREET VIRDI is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability at the University of Delaware, and the author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. For the past two years, analysts ...

The survey looked at nearly 3,000 Americans aged 50 and older and found that only a minority — fewer than 18% of participants over 65 — saw themselves as having a disability. Getty Images In her house ...

In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.” Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a ...

In this op-ed, Amy Kenny highlights the inaccessibility of travel, and the harm disabled people face when their mobility aids are damaged by airlines. My heart pounds in my ears as I wave goodbye to ...