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The Elderly’s Independent Living in Smart Homes: A Characterization of Activities and Sensing Infrastructure Survey to Facilitate Services Development

Sensors, 2015
Human activity detection within smart homes is one of the basis of unobtrusive wellness monitoring of a rapidly aging population in developed countries.
Qin Ni, Ana Belén García Hernando, Iván Pau de la Cruz   +2 more
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Development of a measure of knowledge use by stakeholders in rehabilitation technology

SAGE Open Medicine, 2014
Objectives: Uptake of new knowledge by diverse and diffuse stakeholders of health-care technology innovations has been a persistent challenge, as has been measurement of this uptake.
Vathsala I Stone, Amanda R Nobrega, Joseph P Lane, Machiko R Tomita, Douglas J Usiak, Michelle M Lockett   +5 more
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Exploring equity and inclusion in Malawi’s National Disability Mainstreaming Strategy and Implementation Plan

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Equity and inclusion are important principles in policy development and implementation. The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which equity and inclusion were considered in the development of Malawi’s National Disability ...
Ikenna D. Ebuenyi, Emma M. Smith, Alister Munthali, Steven W. Msowoya, Juba Kafumba, Monica Z. Jamali, Malcolm MacLachlan   +6 more
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Assistive Technology and the Wellbeing of Societies from a Capabilities Approach

Societies, 2023
This Special Issue considers two core facilitators of functioning: assistive technology and environmental intervention [...]
Natasha Layton, Johan Borg
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Feasibility of implementing an innovative manual handling risk assessment training program for staff working in long-term care

Archives of Public Health, 2023
Background The Risk Assessment for moving Individuals SafEly (RAISE) program is a hospital-based manual handling nursing training program. RAISE involves upskilling on continual risk assessment during patient-assisted movements.
Natasha K Brusco, Christine Graven, Leanne Boyd, Helen Kugler, Helen Dawes, Helen Rawson, Lynne Clayton, Suzanna Tan, Victoria A Goodwin, Abi J Hall, Nicholas F Taylor   +10 more
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Early vocational rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury: a research protocol using realist synthesis and interviews to understand how and why it works

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction Return to work after spinal cord injury (SCI) is linked to well-being and better physical and mental health outcomes. In New Zealand, work rates after SCI are lower than the general population.
Andrew Hall, Sarah Derrett, Jennifer Dunn, Rachelle A Martin, Jonathan J Hackney, Joanne L Nunnerley, Deborah Snell, John A Bourke   +7 more
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Networks in Healthcare: A Systematic Review

BioMedInformatics, 2023
Networks form the backbone of any healthcare system. Various databases were searched with relevant keywords, data were abstracted, and numerous papers were appraised for this synthesis.
Santhosh Kumar Rajamani, Radha Srinivasan Iyer   +1 more
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Methodical support of teaching Russian in the foreign educational environment: main categories of subjects and their characteristics

Russian Language Studies, 2018
The article deals with the problems of methodical support of teaching Russian in the foreign educational environment. These problems are of great significance in the sphere of geopolitical interests of the Russian Federation.
Dmitriy Yuryevich Guzhelya
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Shared mobility services: an accessibility assessment from the perspective of people with disabilities

European Transport Research Review, 2022
Introduction Shared on-demand mobility services emerge at a fast pace, changing the landscape of public transport. However, shared mobility services are largely designed without considering the access needs of people with disabilities, putting these ...
Anne Goralzik, Alexandra König, Laura Alčiauskaitė, Tally Hatzakis   +3 more
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Smart Kitchens for People with Cognitive Impairments: A Qualitative Study of Design Requirements [PDF]

, 2018
Individuals with cognitive impairments currently leverage extensive human resources during their transitions from assisted living to independent living.
Brady, Erin, Kosch, Thomas, Schmidt, Albrecht, Woźniak, Paweł W.   +3 more
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