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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 14 – Friday, April 18
Human Interest: Amy Purdy’s bionic grace on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ (The Washington Post) A dancer who is a double amputee wears her prosthetic limbs to get through four weeks of competition on ABC television’s Dancing With the Stars. The … Continue reading
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Tagged adapted tableware, adapted utensil, Advanced Cell Technology, Alzheimer's Disease, autism, brain-machine interface, children with traumatic brain injury, Dancing With the Stars, dementia, double amputee, elderly, electronic tastebud stimulator, exoskeleton, frontal lobe brain injury, funding, legislation, lower limb amputation, macular degeneration, memory recorder, mind-controlled exoskeleton, prosthesis, prosthetic leg, prosthetic limbs, prosthetic liner, retinal pigment epithelium cell therapy, robotic bed, robotic wheelchair/bed, seniors, social skills, socket interface for amputees, stem cell treatment for blindness, traumatic brain injury
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21
Disability Awareness: Friday marks World Down Syndrome Day (9News, Denver, CO) Down syndrome is a genetic disorder in which someone has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two. As a play on numbers, March 21 is World Down Syndrome … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, apps for blind users, autism, blood tau levels, brain concussion, cerebral palsy, clinical trials, clot-busting treatment, dark chocolate, dark chocolate health benefits, dementia, disability legislation, down syndrome, microvascular disease, mobile and smartphone, mobile apps, robotic exoskeleton, school suspension, special education, stroke
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Patient Bloggers: Familiar Chronicles on Neurological Diseases
In the December 2013/January 2014 edition of Neurology Now (Volume 9, Number 6), the Waiting Room feature highlights patient bloggers in the article “Having Their Say: Patient Bloggers”. The article describes how patient bloggers offer advice as they share their … Continue reading
2013 Webinar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Resources
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Administration for Community Living (ACL) are collaborating to host a webinar series designed to improve coordination of federal resources available to assist people with Alzheimer’s … Continue reading
Evidence-based Alzheimer Interventions – Conference Call
Join the Alliance for Aging Research, in partnership with the Administration on Aging and with the support of MetLife, for the release of Translating Innovation to Impact, a new white paper outlining research into evidence-based interventions to help people with … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, Alzheimer's Disease, caregiving, conference call, dementia, evidence-based research, independent living
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NIA, AoA to Host Webinar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Tools for Caregivers
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Administration on Aging (AoA), in partnership with grantees including the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral Center, and the Eldercare Locator are partnering to host a free webinar series to improve … Continue reading
Sensory Stimulation and Snoezelen
Sensory stimulation refers to interventions designed to stimulate one or more of the five senses. These interventions are designed to provide a relaxing and soothing activity which is failure free, responsive to the individual, and is enabling. Sensory stimulation interventions … Continue reading
Defining Dementia
What is Dementia? Dictionary.com defines dementia as a “severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.” The Free Dictionary defines dementia as the “loss of mental … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive disabilities, dementia, disability, disabilties, NIDRR, stroke, TBI
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What is the extent to which caregiver interventions are adapted to deal with ethnic differences?
“Developing culturally sensitive dementia caregiver interventions: are we there yet?” by A.M. Napoles, et al. discusses that it is unknown to what extent caregiver interventions are adapted to deal with ethnic differences. This article, published in the American Journal of … Continue reading
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Tagged caregiving, culturally appropriate, dementia
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Notice of Proposed Rule Making: Secondary Service Connection for Diagnosable Illnesses Associated With Traumatic Brain Injury
On December 12th, 2012 the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend VA adjudication regulations (38 CFR Part 3) by revising 38 CFR 3.310 to add five diagnosable illnesses as secondary conditions associated … Continue reading →