To help elderly and physically disabled people to become self-reliant in daily life such as at home or a health clinic, we have developed a network-type brainmachine interface (BMI) system called “networkBMI” to control real-world actuators like wheelchairs based on human intention measured by a portable brain measurement system. In this paper, we introduce the technologies for achieving the ne...

Rehabilitative engineering has entered a new era. There is growing awareness, within the professions involved and among the general public, that science and technology have helped some of the physically disabled and can be applied more effectively to improve the quality of life for many others. The mounting concern over the high cost of acute and chronic health care is coupled with increasing a...

Adolescents with a chronic illness or physical disability have a more difficult time separating from parents, achieving a sense of mastery, developing social skills among peers, and achieving a positive body-image than do able-bodied adolescents. To promote attainment of these developmental tasks, Adventure, Etc. was created as a wilderness/urban Outward Bound experience for chronically ill, ph...

OBJECTIVES To provide estimates of the numbers of cognitively impaired and physically disabled elderly people in England and Wales, subdivided by a range of sociodemographic, dependency, care receipt, and survival variables, to support debates on the form and funding of health and welfare programmes. DESIGN Interviews at baseline and 2 year follow up plus data on resource use extracted from r...