Using Participant Observation to Enable Critical Understandings of Disability in Later Life: An Illustration Conducted With Older Adults With Low Vision

Older adults with intellectual disability.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Improvements in health and social care for people with intellectual disability have led to a dramatic increase in the life expectancy of this population, resulting in a large and growing number of older adults with intellectual disability. They are at risk of age-related mental disorders such as dementia and continue to present with high rates of mental illness. RECENT FINDI...

Cognitive Rehabilitation An Effective Intervention to Decrease the Cognitive Deficits in Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease

Objectives: The aim of present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation, a new and non-pharmacological approach to reduce memory and other cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease. Methods & Materials: This study was a quasi-experimental research, in singlesubject study-with control group- and based on an A-B design. That was conducted in two groups of control and exp...

Quality of life and depressive symptoms as predictors of participant adherence in a randomized trial conducted among older adults at risk of mobility disability

Poor adherence is an issue in clinical trials with a striking magnitude and negative impact. Recent studies indicate that two widely used clinical screening tools, Short Form (SF-36) Health Survey and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) can be used as risk stratifiers to identify participants who require extra interaction to stay adherent in specific population. There is, ...

‏‎design of an analog ram (aram)chip with 10-bit resolution and low-power for signal processing in 0/5m cmos process‎‏

برای پردازش سیگنال آنالوگ در شبکه های عصبی ، معمولا نیاز به یک واحد حافظه آنالوگ احساس میشود که بدون احتیاج به ‏‎a/d‎‏ و‏‎d/a‎‏ بتواند بطور قابل انعطاف و مطمئن اطلاعات آنالوگ را در خود ذخیره کند. این واحد حافظه باید دارای دقت کافی ، سرعت بالا ، توان تلفاتی کم و سایز کوچک باشد و همچنین اطلاعات را برای زمان کافی در خود نگهدارد. برای پیاده سازی سیستمی که همه این قابلیتها را در خود داشته باشد، کوشش...

OBSERVATION IN INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH The challenges and benefits of using participant observation to understand the social interaction of adults with intellectual disability