About a third of the people over 65 have a strong fear of falling and that limits their activities. And this prevalence of both falls and fear of falling increases with age....
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Falls and Injuries
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Safe Harbor
The 2010 Standards for assembly areas contain revised requirements for dispersion of accessible seating, sightlines over standing spectators, and companion seating....
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Meeting Purpose
Some events have over 50% participants or upwards of 50 to 2000-3000 people with disabilities....
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Factors to Consider in Planning For & Administering an ADA Facilities Compliance Plan
Surveying a few, large facilities in a few locations may be far easier to handle using an outside consultant than surveying hundreds of small facilities spread over a large geographic area...
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4.2.3. Alternate Medium Accessibility Baseline
The total costs over the 15-year analysis period under the alternate Medium Accessibility baseline decrease by less than 1 percent, to $88.0 million, when compared to the primary analysis...
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Considerations When Hiring an Interpreter
The range could be anywhere between $25 and over $100 per hour for each interpreter. Costs may be higher if interpreters are hired through an agency....
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3.1 Comparison of Our Sample to U.S. Population of WhMD Users
As stated in the previous section, we deliberately over-sampled powered device users in order to be able to accurately describe the anthropometric characteristics of this group....
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RESEARCH NEEDS
This crossing control, which has approval from FHWA as an experimental device, consists of two red lenses over an amber lens....
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Chapter 2: Putting the ADA on the Legislative Agenda: The National Council on Disability
Nor is there an incremental, inexorable development over time. Rather, the process is messy....
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5.0 Conclusions
In a global economy, people who use wheeled mobility devices can be expected to travel all over the world....
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11B-604.8.1.2 Doors
The door is required to have a latch which is flip-over style, sliding or which otherwise does not require the user to grasp or twist....
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Introduction
Over the years museums have primarily presented their collections to the public through purely visual means with the objects often being located behind glass....
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Section 1.0 Background
funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, developed a new set of anthropometric measurement methods and a comprehensive anthropometric data set of over...
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II. Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations
Thus, a reservation that would preserve the existing balance between federal and state jurisdiction over these matters is appropriate and necessary....
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Sampling Strategies
Such divisions might be, for example: 18‒25, 26‒38, 39‒50, and 51and over....
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19 Inch Low Height
Transitioning to Adjustable Height Tables In 2012, approximately 25 percent of examination tables sold in the U.S. are at about a 19-inch low height.17 This is a significant increase over...
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Mobilizing the Disability Community
In 1987, Owens became Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Select Education, which had jurisdiction over many disability issues....
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Assisted Living Directory - Alabama Assisted Living Facilities & Senior Care
In the early 1900s, the elderly comprised 1 in 25 citizens in the United States, or a little over 3 million. Now, that number is 1 in 8, or approximately 34 million (as of 1997)....
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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROLLED ROUNDABOUT PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
This could be accomplished by placing signal faces over each lane of a double-lane roundabout, or signal faces on poles on each side of the road....
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Accessible Icon Project
Since its inception, educational institutions, private companies, cities and townships, governmental organizations, hospitals, and—most importantly—individual activists all over the world...
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mobileWOMEN.org
are thrilled about the success of mobileWOMEN.org, a site where knowledge will be expanded and success will be celebrated, thereby broadening the horizons for women in wheelchairs all over...
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Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
Assistance is available both over the phone and online....
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Shepherd Center
We also serve as an ambassador to help patients navigate their journey over a lifetime....
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National Catholic Partnership on Disability (NCPD)
Passed unanimously on November 16, 1978, this prophetic document calls for welcome of the now over fourteen million Catholics who live with disabilities. ...
