730 http://msj.sagepub.com benefits. It will identify those with early significant cognitive impairment, at increased risk of fast disease progression. It will alert MS clinic staff to those people with MS who have evidence of objective cognitive impairment and who require more support in disease management. Avoiding one urinary infection will easily save the cost of a few annual BICAMS assessm...

This paper describes to develop an intelligent wheelchair which is useful to physically disabled people with introducing control and navigational intelligence. Some people with severely handicapped people that affect hand movements, motor is not possible to drive a common electric wheelchair. In Powered wheelchair is not able to drive correctly with the joystick. It proposed the design of Intel...

Personal responsibility is a powerful idea supported by many values central to West European thought. On the conceptual level personal responsibility is a complex notion. It is important to separate the concept of being responsible for a given state of affairs from the concept of holding people responsible by introducing measures that decrease their share of available resources. Introducing per...

This is an extended write-up of a lecture introducing the concept of Nash equilibrium in the context of an auction-type game which one can observe being played by “ordinary people” in real time. In a simplified model we give an explicit formula for the Nash equilibrium. The actual game is more complicated and more interesting; players place a bid on one item (amongst several) during a time wind...

We examined how far, and at what cost, the housing stock could be modified to accommodate the assistive technology (AT) necessary to enable older people to remain in their own homes. A multidisciplinary team devised seven hypothetical user profiles for 10 case study areas, with five local authorities and five housing associations in England and Wales. Each profile was considered at two times, f...

Improving quality of care in long term care homes could enhance the lives of many elderly people. Traditional inspection procedures, although preventing substandard care, have limited ability to increase residential quality of life. 2 A new generation of quality assurance procedures has the potential to change everyday practice in homes:' but the procedures also potentially pose problems. They ...

This is an extended write-up of a lecture introducing the concept of Nash equilibrium in the context of an auction-type game that one can observe being played by “ordinary people” in real time. In a simplified model, we give an explicit formula for the Nash equilibrium. The actual game is more complicated and more interesting; players place a bid on one item (among several) during a time window...