Choosing an Assisted Living Facility by Suzanna Smith

“…“Assisted living facilities are a type of housing for frail elders and people with physical and mental disabilities who don’t need nursing care but cannot live independently. …”
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Choosing an Assisted Living Facility by Suzanna Smith

“…“Assisted living facilities are a type of housing for frail elders and people with physical and mental disabilities who don’t need nursing care but cannot live independently. …”
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Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Successful Stenting of the Pulmonary Artery by Rennae Thiessen, Fred Matzinger, Jean Seely, Rima Aina, Peter MacLeod

“…Fibrosing mediastinitis is a rare benign condition, which can cause compression of the pulmonary or systemic vessels, tracheobronchial tree, coronary arteries or esophagus, leading to disabling clinical symptoms and even death. The case of a 26-year-old woman who presented with dyspnea is described. …”
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Design of Multi-function Rehabilitation Wheelchair based on Human-machine Interaction by Pan Lu, Liu Yan, Yang Yan

“…It can improve the quality of life of the disabled patients.…”
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System of activities from Sports for All with an inclusive approach for the preparation of the Physical Education teacher by Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Fleites, Daniela Milagros Palacio González, Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez Concepción, Gretter Ledesma-Santos, Ana Odalis Ruano Anoceto, Leobel Morell Pérez

“…In the case of the Physical Education teacher at different educational levels, he must take advantage of the possibilities that sport offers to stimulate the potential of students with disabilities, which would help to improve this process in contemporary primary schools. …”
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Pharmacological Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain – Consensus Statement and Guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society by DE Moulin, AJ Clark, I Gilron, MA Ware, CPN Watson, BJ Sessle, T Coderre, PK Morley-Forster, J Stinson, A Boulanger, P Peng, GA Finley, P Taenzer, P Squire, D Dion, A Cholkan, A Gilani, A Gordon, J Henry, R Jovey, M Lynch, A Mailis-Gagnon, A Panju, GB Rollman, A Velly

“…Neuropathic pain (NeP), generated by disorders of the peripheral and central nervous system, can be particularly severe and disabling. Prevalence estimates indicate that 2% to 3% of the population in the developed world suffer from NeP, which suggests that up to one million Canadians have this disabling condition. …”
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Comparison of the safety and efficacy of dual antiplatelet therapy versus tenecteplase in patients with minor nondisabling acute ischemic stroke by Xinzhao Jiang, Ruozhen Yuan, Jiawei Ye, Xu Wang, Zongjie Shi, Shunyuan Guo

“…Abstract To evaluate the safety and efficacy of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) versus tenecteplase in minor non-disabling acute ischemic stroke. This retrospective observational study utilized data from our stroke database. …”
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Design Issues and Application of Cable-Based Parallel Manipulators for Rehabilitation Therapy by E. Ottaviano

“…Modelling and simulation of both active and passive cable-based parallel manipulators are presented for an application to help older people, patients or disabled people in the sit-to-stand transfer and as a monitoring/training system. …”
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L’organisation du travail universitaire des étudiant·e·s en situation de handicap et son accompagnement. Étude de cas en France et en Angleterre by Micha Louisa Mettouchi

“…This article focuses on the organization of university work of English and French students with disabilities and the way in which the university environment sees the birth of and responds to the difficulties in this area, involving restrictions of participation in learning and situations of inequality.We will find that for some students an efficient organization of work is possible thanks to the resources that we will highlight. …”
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Design and Kinematic Simulation of the Transposition Mechanism of Wheelchair-hand Control System by Pan Liping, Ge Fei, Su Daoquan, Wan Chaoyan

“…With the help of Auto CAD,the transposition linkage mechanism of wheelchair-hand control system used for the elderly and disabled is designed by using graphical method.The mathematic model of the mechanism is built,the correctness of the design result is verified by using the analytical method.The mathematic model of the mechanism is built in ADAMS,and the kinematics simulation is carried out,the various positions of the requirement of the transposition linkage mechanism of wheelchair-hand control system are obtained.It is shows that the mechanism meet the challenge of motion continuity and without malposition and re-ordering problem,the useful reference for verifying the feasibility and rationality of design scheme is provided.…”
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Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia by Sebastiaan Velthuis, Martin J. Swaans, Johannes J. Mager, Benno J. W. M. Rensing, Lucas V. A. Boersma, Martijn C. Post

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, affecting millions of individuals worldwide, and a major risk factor for disabling cerebral embolic stroke. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder, characterized by vascular abnormalities with high-bleeding tendency and therefore intolerance for oral anticoagulation. …”
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Olmsted Syndrome by Renata Elise Tonoli, Damiê De Villa, Renata Hübner Frainer, Luana Pizzarro Meneghello, Nelson Ricachnevsky, Maurício de Quadros

“…The disease has a slow but progressive and extremely disabling course. Treatment of Olmsted syndrome is often based on topical therapy with retinoic acid, corticosteroid, emollients, and keratolytics. …”
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Billy and Oliver: an approach to promoting resilience and improving interaction in two residential child care settings by Charlotte Wilson, John Mackland, Jessica Cundy

“…Barnardo's Caern Project is a residential shore breaks unit for young people with learning disabilities, and provides a support at home service which aims to increase the resilience and confidence of parents and carers.…”

Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Treat the Patient Not the Haemodynamics by Ben Dunne, Annika van den Broek, Vaughan Williams, Gregory Smith, Tamas Revesz, Mark Edwards, Eli Gabbay

“…Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a disabling condition that is being increasingly recognised. …”
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A Synchronized Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface System for Simultaneous Detection and Classification of Fusion EEG Signals by Dalin Yang, Trung-Hau Nguyen, Wan-Young Chung

“…Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology represents a fast-growing field of research and applications for disabled and healthy people, which is a direct communication pathway to translate the neural information into an active command. …”
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Intersectionnalité, diversité capacitaire et diversité ethnoculturelle by Véro Leduc, Sendy-Loo Emmanuel

“…., 2020a)—a term for the diversity of deaf or disabled people or members of neurominorities or psychominorities, (Leduc, 2022) who may also identify with different ethnocultural groups. …”
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Disaster Planning for Caregivers by Carolyn Wilken

“…But if you’re responsible for providing care for someone who’s disabled, chances are you face additional concerns. …”
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Transition to Adulthood in Spina Bifida: Changing Roles and Expectations by Shubhra Mukherjee

“…The importance of transition programming to help adolescents with disabilities prepare for adult life roles is now understood. …”
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Management of the Knee Extension Deficit after Acute Trauma by Thiago Alvim do Amaral, David Sadigursky

“…The loss of knee extension, even if minimal, is disabling and leads to worse results after knee surgical treatment. …”
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Uncommon Diseases: a Look from Pediatrics by Jan Oneil González Ramos, Lisbel Aguilar Lezcano

“…In general they present a chronic quite severe progress, with multiple motor, sensory and cognitive disabilities and therefore they use to show a high level of clinical complexity which makes their identification and diagnosis very difficult. …”
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