Self-Help Devices

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A conceptual framework of outcomes for caregivers of assistive technology users. 
  • A framework for modelling the selection of assistive technology devices (ATDs). 
  • A framework for the conceptual modelling of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • Association of environmental factors with levels of home and community participation in an adult rehabilitation cohort. 
  • Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects. 
  • Brain-machine interfaces: past, present and future. 
  • Categorizing the effect of comorbidity: a qualitative study of individuals' experiences in a low-vision rehabilitation program. 
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma-patient characteristics and health impairment. 
  • Cost, utilization, and policy of provision of assistive technology devices to veterans poststroke by Medicare and VA. 
  • Demographic and clinical variation in Veterans Health Administration provision of assistive technology devices to veterans poststroke. 
  • Development and evaluation of a new taxonomy of mobility-related assistive technology devices. 
  • Development and preliminary evaluation of the caregiver assistive technology outcome measure. 
  • Development of a French-Canadian version of the Life-Space Assessment (LSA-F): content validity, reliability and applicability for power mobility device users. 
  • Development of a teletechnology protocol for in-home rehabilitation. 
  • Does assistive technology substitute for personal assistance among the disabled elderly? 
  • Effect of a tailored assistive technology intervention on older adults and their family caregiver: a pragmatic study protocol. 
  • Effect of motorized scooters on physical performance and mobility: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effects of a caregiver-inclusive assistive technology intervention: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of an assistive technology intervention on older adults with disabilities and their informal caregivers: an exploratory randomized controlled trial. 
  • Evaluating outcomes in assistive technology: do we understand the commitment? 
  • Gender differences in autobiographical memory for everyday events: retrieval elicited by SenseCam images versus verbal cues. 
  • How assistive technology use by individuals with disabilities impacts their caregivers: a systematic review of the research evidence. 
  • Integration of Parent and Nurse Perspectives of Communication to Plan Care for Technology Dependent Children: The Theory of Shared Communication. 
  • Interventions for Gait Training in Children With Spinal Cord Impairments: A Scoping Review. 
  • Introduction: Disability policy and the law: much accomplished, much remains to be done. 
  • Knee arthrodesis with circular external fixation. 
  • Lower extremity physical performance, self-reported mobility difficulty, and use of compensatory strategies for mobility by elderly women. 
  • Managing the patient with Parkinson's disease. 
  • Measures of physical and cognitive function and work status among individuals with multiple sclerosis: a review of the literature. 
  • Mobility-related assistive technology device classifications: implications for outcomes research. 
  • Motorized scooters: boon or bane? 
  • NAKFI smart prosthetics: exploring assistive devices for the body and mind. 
  • Psychometric and administrative properties of measures used in assistive technology device outcomes research. 
  • Relationship between the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index Physical Function Subscale and physical performance measures in patients with hip osteoarthritis. 
  • Research agenda for geriatric rehabilitation. 
  • Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: report from a technical working group. 
  • The Voice of the Consumer: A Survey of Veterans and Other Users of Assistive Technology. 
  • The effect of equipment usage and residual task difficulty on use of personal assistance, days in bed, and nursing home placement. 
  • The effects of in-home rehabilitation on task self-efficacy in mobility-impaired adults: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • Therapeutic approaches to the treatment of rheumatoid disease. 
  • Toward a taxonomy of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • Tracking mobility-related assistive technology in an outcomes study. 
  • Treatment theory, intervention specification, and treatment fidelity in assistive technology outcomes research. 
  • Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needs. 
  • Use of Assistive Devices to Lift, Transfer, and Reposition Hospital Patients.