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Low Vision Part 5: How Can Family Members Help a Loved One With Low Vision?
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Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA)
FCA, as a public voice for caregivers, shines light on the challenges caregivers face daily and champions their cause through education, services, and advocacy....
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On Pins and Needles: Caregivers of Adults with Mental Illness
This report outlines findings from the research study On Pins and Needles: Caregivers of Adults with Mental Illness....
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Disabled Renters' Housing Rights Fact Sheet by AGIS
Because our business was founded on our own caregiving experience, we know how important such questions are....
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The Guide to Securing Life-long Accommodations for Adult Children With Special Needs
The Guide to Securing Life-long Accommodations for Adult Children With Special Needs Planning for the future is important for everyone, and especially so for parents of...
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Making the move to managing your own personal assistance services (PAS)
Transitioning into adulthood can be awkward for nearly every young person. Some youth with disabilities may need extra supports throughout their transition period in order to make...
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The Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals
brings together like-minded individuals that want to share ideas, support research, and advocate for sound regulatory activity that improves and promotes a safer working environment for all caregivers...
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AIA White Paper: A Proposal for additions to accessibility Standards for Nursing Home & Assisted Living Residents in Toileting and Bathing
Improve caregiver safety ( or decreasing staff injuries) Specifically, this White Paper: 1....
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Shower
The lowered walls would enable caregivers to reach and use a hand held shower from outside the shower to assist a care recipient....
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4.21.2 Size and Clearances
users were not expected to independently maneuver their wheelchairs, the critical issues regarding floor space both outside and inside the shower were the amount of space available for caregivers...
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Water closet
Additional space between the sidewall and the water closet was intended to provide space on both sides of the fixture for a caregiver to stand alongside....
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4.21.4 Grab Bars
On the one hand, transfers are typically only made into shower chairs outside the shower and with a caregiver’s assistance....
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Sizewise Bari Rehab Platform
The Bari Rehab Platform is designed to promote a safe and comfortable environment of care for the bariatric patient and caregiver alike....
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Shower Stalls (ADAAG 4.21)
As a result, design of shower stalls was intended to accommodate caregiver assistance with washing, rather than assistance with transfer into the fixture....
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4.20.2 Floor Space
However, because frail older adults do not perform sliding transfers, clear floor space in eldercare facilities was needed for one or more caregivers to be able to assist with getting in...
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4. Q: How do I decide whether a child with a disability belongs in my program?
In making this assessment, the caregiver must not react to unfounded preconceptions or stereotypes about what children with disabilities can or cannot do, or how much assistance they may...
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Hoyer Presence Heavy-Duty Lift
The powered base allows caregivers to open and close the legs with the simple touch of a button - no bending or twisting, and the tapered leg design allow the Stature to be positioned closer...
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Users and Needs
This approach was purposeful as users of these facilities often require the assistance of caregivers and therefore may have accessibility requirements that are different from those specified...
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4.16.2 Clear Floor Space
However, in accommodating assisted transfers, these guidelines were less of an issue than providing space adjacent to the water closet for caregivers and including a 5’ turning radius in...
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Sizewise Bari Rehab Platform2 Bariatric Hospital Bed
Features such as the open side rail, low working height of the deck and simplified hand control all enhance the patient’s independence as well as decrease the patient’s reliance on the caregiver...
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Communication Barriers
Sometimes the health care provider talks to a person’s aide or caregiver rather than talking directly to the person with the disability....
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Technibilt Caroline's Cart
It provides caregivers a viable option to transport a special needs individual through a store while shopping, without the impossible task of having to maneuver a wheelchair and a traditional...
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Project Goals
Even people requiring a caregiver can live independently for life in this home. Regenerative: restoring when the inevitable occurs....
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Length
As these bars were used by individuals who often had unsteady gait and were at risk of falls, the shorter bars were likely to have been used to enable both older individuals and caregivers...
