PURPOSE Disability is conceptualized as behaviour by psychological theory and as a result of bodily impairment by medical models. However, how people with disabilities conceptualize those disabilities is unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine disability representations in people with mobility disabilities. METHOD Thirteen people with mobility disabilities completed personal reperto...

BACKGROUND Many older adults with mobility limitations use assistive technology to help them perform daily activities. However, little attention has been paid to the impact on their family caregivers. This neglect produces an incomplete portrayal of the outcomes of assistive technology provision. This paper describes the protocol for a study that examines the impact of a tailored assistive tech...

BACKGROUND Mobility limitations increase with age in the general population. Despite a growing population of older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID), mobility is rarely studied in the ID literature. The specific aim of this study was to identify and summarise primary literature investigating mobility limitations in adults with ID. METHODS This study was a systematic review of the epi...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine children's walking speeds in elementary school hallways. A second aim was to determine the slowest but "good enough" walking speed if a teacher had to slow down her class's line to accommodate a student with a mobility limitation. METHODS The walking speeds of 370 children serving as class-line leaders were determined after measuring using a stop...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of mobility device interventions in terms of activity and participation for people with mobility limitations. DESIGN Systematic review. Search of 7 databases during the period 1996 to 2008. METHODS Controlled studies and non-controlled follow-up studies were included if they covered both baseline and follow-up data and focused on activity and partici...

Persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) frequently experience limitations of ambulation in the course of their disease. Not surprisingly, in recent surveys PwMS considered lower extremity function as one of the most important bodily functions, and ranked mobility limitations as the most important factor affecting their quality of life. The impact of MS on ambulation is reflected in the fact that...

SOPHIE PAUTEX1,∗, FRANÇOIS R. HERRMANN2, PAULETTE LE LOUS3, GABRIEL GOLD4 1Division of palliative medicine, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Ch. De la Savonnière 11, CH-1245 Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland Email: [email protected] 2Division of Geriatrics Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, HUG, 3.ch Pont-Bochet, CH-1226 Thônex, Switzer...

Singapore's life expectancy at birth and at age 65 continues to improve. Although this is a positive development, it is necessary to understand how much of this increased life expectancy is spent with and without mobility limitations. This research uses the latest round of the National Survey of Senior Citizens to examine the situation in 2011 and the possible changes that may have occurred sin...

increasing of energy demand and decreasing of water resources, could make the future energy production as a big challenge. climate change is one of the main reasons for water resources limitation. future precipitation and air temperature, change hydrological conditions and directly effect on the hydropower production. for showing the future condition and making it possible to manage the hydropo...

This article analyzes a strongly nonlinear oscillator with cubic and harmonic restoring force and proposes an efficient analytical technique based on the modified energy balance method (MEBM). The proposed method incorporates higher-order approximations. After applying the proposed MEBM, a set of complicated higher-order nonlinear algebraic equations are obtained. Higher-order nonlinear algebra...