The Role of Research
This issue of R&R explores the role of research in the lives of people with disabilities. Taylor Spencer offers four potential benefits of such efforts, and the discussion warrants serious deliberation despite the complex and controversial nature of the subject. Considering we now know—medically speaking—that children are not just little adults, that women are not like men, and that older people are not like middle-aged people, it is time to recognize that people with disabilities may not be like their age- and gender-matched peers. Rather, they are prone to their own unique manifestations of unique diseases. Meaningful, appropriately conducted research may help bridge the enormous gap in everyday management expertise that now exists.
—Norris R. Glick, MD
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