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Vocational rehabilitation for young onset dementia
Published in Marjolein de Vugt, Janet Carter, Understanding Young Onset Dementia, 2021
Assistive technology has increased, and valuable use in the workplace and has been used to support workers with YOD (Alzheimer's and Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin, 2009; Evans et al., 2015; Schlosser et al., 2016). Assistive technology includes both high and low technology smart devices such as memory aids, communication aids, and behaviour management aids. Various computer applications can also help, e.g. a simple checklist memo can check whether certain tasks have been completed in the correct order.
Robotic Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Rehabilitation Medicine
Published in Lawrence S. Chan, William C. Tang, Engineering-Medicine, 2019
As the need for advanced technology devices has increased in the field of rehabilitation, the assistive technology service has emerged as an important field in rehabilitation. Assistive technology services require in-depth understanding of both technology and of the human with disability. The assistive technology service gathers the expertise from a team of professionals, including rehabilitation engineers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, recreational therapists, physicians, and/or prosthetists. The team works together to provide (1) assessment of the individual’s needs of ATDs; (2) acquisition of the devices; (3) selecting, designing, fitting, customizing, adapting, applying, maintaining, repairing or replacing them; and (4) training of health care providers, individuals with disabilities, and their caregivers.
Considerations and adaptations to safely accommodate program participants
Published in Rebecca L. Haller, Karen L. Kennedy, Christine L. Capra, The Profession and Practice of Horticultural Therapy, 2019
Tools and various forms of assistive technology are often used in a horticultural therapy program to help facilitate participants’ engagement in tasks. Facilitation may be through the way tasks are organized or through the positioning and use of tools and equipment utilized by participants. Assistive technology includes products, devices, and services that enhance individuals’ abilities to accomplish tasks, including activities of daily living, which they may have previously been unable or had difficulty being able to do (US Congress 2008). Adaptive tools are assistive technology devices that remove barriers and enable participants’ ability to complete tasks (Broach 2000).
Care robot research and development plan for disability and aged care in Korea: A mixed-methods user participation study
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
Myung-Joon Lim, Won-Kyung Song, Hyosun Kweon, Eun-Rae Ro
To analyze and categorize the needs for care robots, we used the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) d codes (activity and participation), mainly used in the existing disability area. The ICF methodology (World Health Organization, 2001) is used to describe the everyday difficulties faced by people with significant disabilities. The ICF provides a systematic framework for articulating a comprehensive and client-centered perspective (Schraner et al., 2008). It is widely used for indicating activity limitations based on the disability type (Cieza et al., 2010; Geyh et al., 2004; Scherer et al., 2012; Schiariti et al., 2015; Spoorenberg et al., 2015) to determine user requirements for assistive technology devices (De Gois Pinto et al., 2016). It also indicates the cost-effectiveness of assistive technology systems with individually tailored combinations of devices and care work (Schraner et al., 2008).
The challenge of complexity: research quality in assistive technology
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
However, in complex interventions, like assistive technology provision, adherence to this model of evidence quality is problematic. Assistive technology provision is multi-faceted, individualized, and contextual. Even an intervention that looks the same on the surface – the provision of a specific product to address a specific functional limitation – will vary significantly in its application. The person’s needs, preferences, and functional capacity, existing skillset of the person, the product and its personalized specifications, set-up of the product and training around its use, role of the service provider, support networks around the person, and social, physical, and institutional environments in which the product is used all will have an impact on the resulting outcomes. To measure and evaluate outcomes of any one of these is challenging. To address the potential contribution of each of them in the context of a controlled trial is nearly impossible. Furthermore, placebo-controlled trials are impossible in assistive technology provision, and other forms of comparison between assistive products – or no assistive product at all – are often unethical. Evaluating outcomes associated with service delivery models is equally problematic.
An intelligent indoor guidance and navigation system for the visually impaired
Published in Assistive Technology, 2022
According to the 2017 report by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB, 2017), 253 million people in the world endure vision impairment or blindness. Moreover, the global count of blind people is 36 million which is expected to increase to 114.6 million in 2050 (Bourne et al., 2017). Considered to be the most severe sensory disability, vision loss can lead to approximately 90% deprivation of a person’s multi-sense perception (Hakobyan et al., 2013). Thus, the visually impaired experience significant limitations on mobility which can be defined as the ability to move toward an entity or destination in a safe, independent, and efficient way (Kuyk et al., 2010). To help in overcoming these limitations, assistive technologies have emerged with the aim of safely and conveniently navigating users in unfamiliar environments with dynamic path planning to reach destinations while detecting and avoiding obstacles. In general, assistive technology can be defined as products helping disabled individuals to fully integrate into society (Fernandes et al., 2019).