Fact: Approximately 1 in 8 working-age adults in the United States have some type of disability. Of these adults over half (51.0%) had a mobility disability and 38.3% had a cognitive disability.
Fact: Among working-age adults with only 1 disability, the most common type was disability in mobility (33.5%), followed by hearing (24.4%) and cognition (23.1%).
• Among working-age adults with 2 or more disability types, disability in mobility, independent living, and cognition were the most common types.
• Compared with working-age adults with no disability, adults with any disability were more likely to be age 45-64 and more likely to be black, non-Hispanic.
• People with disabilities had from 1 to 6 disability types:
o Hearing (serious difficulty hearing),
o Vision (serious difficulty seeing),
o Cognition (serious difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions),
o Mobility (serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs),
o Self-care (difficulty dressing or bathing),
o Independent living (difficulty doing errands alone).
(Source: Center For Disease Control )