OBJECTIVE to measure the prevalence of impairments, disabilities and handicaps in a geographically-defined elderly population. DESIGN cross-sectional analysis of an interview survey. SETTING a single North London electoral ward (district). PARTICIPANTS 654 residents (74%) over the age of 65 years were interviewed from a register of 889. A random sample of 225 had additional data collected...

This study evaluated the financial impact of integrating a systemic care management intervention program (Community Care of North Carolina) with person-centered medical homes throughout North Carolina for non-elderly Medicaid recipients with disabilities during almost 5 years of program history. It examined Medicaid claims for 169,676 non-elderly Medicaid recipients with disabilities from Janua...

Remember back when Medicaid was Medicaid and Medicare was Medicare? These state and federal programs, which respectively provide medical assistance to low-income families and health insurance for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, were complicated enough when they became law as part of the Social Security Act in 1965. Now we've added managed care to the mix.

OBJECTIVES Little is known regarding the amount of time spent by unpaid caregivers providing help to elderly individuals for disabilities associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). We sought to obtain nationally representative estimates of the time, and associated cost, of informal caregiving provided to elderly individuals with diabetes, and to determine the complications of DM that contribute mo...

In developing countries disabled people and the elderly are more likely to be among the poor. Moreover, exclusion increases the costs associated with disability to constrain disabled people from breaking out of poverty. Improved access and mobility are important factors in reducing poverty and can facilitate the participation of people with disabilities in economic, social and political process...

In this paper, we describe the development of a hand held personal home assistent capable of controlling a wide range of electronic home devices. A demonstrator of the system was developed in the European project TIDE HEPHAISTOS (Home Environment Private Help AssISTant fOr elderly and diSabled). Its multimodal user interface is based on a coloured high resolution touch screen extended with spee...

abstract aim and background: parenting styles are particular methods that parents use of them in nurturing of their children.the aim of this study was comparing parenting styles of mothers of pre-school children with and without intellectual disabilities. method and material: this is a causal-comparative research.the statistical population of this research includes the whole mothers of pre-scho...

The purpose of this study was to develop appropriate somatosensory video game interventions on enhancing selective attention of institutional-dwelling elderly with disabilities. Fifty-eight participants aged 65~92 were recruited and divided into four groups, 4-week and 8-week experimental and two control groups, for evaluating the one-month carry-forward effects by Vienna Test System. Fourteen ...