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JENNIFER HOWARD-DOERING is an academic who published a paper in 2017 entitled Understanding the Disabled Self in Later Life: Perceived Effects of Policy on Self-Conceptualization. JENNIFER HOWARD-DOERING published this work as part of a team: Howard-Doering, Jennifer. Here is a description of this work: Individuals with disabilities are living longer and have healthier lives than ever before. Many of these same adults have been advocating publicly for more choice and control in their services and supports to allow for greater independence. In response, several policies, such as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and policies resulting from Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), have been implemented over time, which have attempted to allow greater equality and improve their quality of life. This study attempted to understand aging with a disability from the individual?s perspective, informants? assessments of whether policies intended to provide greater equality and improve their quality of life have positively affected their conceptualizations of disability, and their identities as a.