Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Disability Tax Credit

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disea se (COPD) Disability Tax Credit

What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?

COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Smoking is the leading cause for this lung disease, accounting for 80-90% of these cases. This lung disease includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and tends to develop over time beginning around the age of forty.

Symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Shortness of breath is a common symptom of someone with COPD. Additional symptoms include wheezing, fatigue, lung infections, and coughs with mucus.

Although not entirely curable, COPD can be treated. By quitting smoking, exercising, taking prescribed medication, or undergoing lung transplantation, one can minimize COPD symptoms and get back to living a normal and healthy life.

Treatment for COPD COPD is treatable as proper management can help an individual control their symptoms and quality of life. Treatment goals are to slow down the disease by quitting smoking and avoiding air pollutants which trigger COPD. Medicine also helps to limit symptoms and improve your overall health. For example, bronchodilators commonly come in an inhaler to relax the muscles around the airway to relieve coughing and shortness of breath.

Eligibility Criteria for Disability Tax Credit for COPD To be eligible for this tax credit, a person must be impaired for over the period of one full year. They can also be eligible if they have difficulty in one of the following daily life activities, such as walking. For a walking impairment, the patient must be unable to walk 100m (a city block) or it must take them an inordinate amount of time (3 times longer than normal) to do so due to shortness of breath.

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