Disease and Disability in the Elderly: A Call for Research

Jyoti Singh (1), MJ Thomas (2), Maya Thomas (3)
(1) Health Services, Parry Agro Industries, Valparai, Tamil Nadu, India,
(2) Sagar Hospital, Bangalore, India,
(3) Disability and Development, Bangalore, India

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Jyoti Singh
MJ Thomas
mjt_1000@yahoo.com (Primary Contact)
Maya Thomas
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Jyoti Singh, Health Services, Parry Agro Industries, Valparai, Tamil Nadu

Senior Manager, Health Services

MJ Thomas, Sagar Hospital, Bangalore

Dr. MJ Thomas is a senior consultant and coordinator of Psychiatry at Sagar Hospital, Bangalore India. He has been associated with the Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal from its inception, developing the idea of the journal and its content. mentoring the initial team behind the journal, initiating and analysing feedback surveys and carrying out periodic qualitative reviews of the journal.

Maya Thomas, Disability and Development, Bangalore

Maya Thomas is the Founder-Editor of the Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal. With a doctorate in Psychology, she is an independent consultant on disability, CBR and development, based in Bangalore, India. Her areas of work include policy development and strategy planning related to disability and development, particularly community based approaches; evaluation of disability programmes; and capacity building and training of planners and managers of disability programmes. She has more than 20 years of experience in these areas countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.

Dr. Thomas is on the Editorial Committee of the World Report on Disability of WHO, Geneva, and has been a member of the Core Group for the development of the WHO CBR Guidelines (2010).

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Singh J, Thomas M, Thomas M. Disease and Disability in the Elderly: A Call for Research. DCIDJ [Internet]. 2013 May 1 [cited 2025 Jun. 1];24(1):150-2. Available from: https://dcidj.uog.edu.et/index.php/up-j-dcbrid/article/view/107

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