I think handicapped and disabled are more along the lines of BillD's and LH's thinking. There was a movement about to replace them with "differently abled" and other terms that didn't really catch on. (I still avoid them, just using the more specific term e.g paralyzed or whatever, and I don't think I'm scheduled for heaven anyway.)

I will always remember pressuring my unseen landlord on the telephone for window coverings I had been promised, when she told me I should back down because she was an invalid !!

Who's Sarah Palin?