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Ergonomic standards for pedestrian areas for disabled people: literature review and consultations [PDF]
, 1988 As part of the project for the Transport and Road Research Laboratory concerned with the development of design guidance for pedestrian areas and footways to satisfy the needs of disabled and elderly people, a thorough examination of the literature ...
Berrett, B. +3 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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Disabled people in disabling settlements
Ekistics and The New Habitat, 2002 The author is an architect/town and regional planner with nearly fifty years of architectural and planning practice of which twenty years were with C.A. Doxiadis and/or Doxiadis Associates , of which he was a Vice-President until 1987. Parallel to the above he has held various posts within the non-profit Athens Technological Organization: he was Vice ...
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Living in a “Parallel World”: Disability in Post-Soviet Ukraine [PDF]
, 2002 [Excerpt] These are challenges that are familiar to disabled people all over the world. Challenges such as these make many persons with disabilities in Ukraine feel as if they live in a “parallel world,” one separate from that enjoyed by “able-bodied ...
Phillips, Sarah D
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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Digital exclusion: coming out from behind closed doors [PDF]
, 2011 Government visions of a digital future show little indication of how disabled people, reliant on access technology, will participate. Access technology has the potential to offer independent use of the Internet but many disabled people already face ...
Watling, Sue
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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.Time‐ and dose‐related pathological changes of knee osteoarthritis rat model induced by monosodium iodoacetate. Abstract Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a chronic degenerative disease. Monosodium iodoacetate (MIA) induction is the most commonly used therapeutic effect evaluation and mechanism of action research model; we observed a lack of standardization
Wei Pu +6 more
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Empowering People with Disabilities [PDF]
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2018 Reema Samuel, K S Jacob
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Quality of life predictors in physically disabled people
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2018 BACKGROUND: Physically disabled people experience more restrictions in social activities than healthy people, which are associated with lower level of well-being and poor quality of life (QoL). STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was conducted METHODS:
Fatemeh Rajati +5 more
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