The elderly There is no magical age at which one becomes "old," and any special housing needs are never a consequence of age alone but rather of accompanying financial, mental, or physical disability. The old include some of our poorest, most vulnerable citizens-in 1986 a fifth of single pensioners lived in houses needing more than £1000 worth of urgent repairs to the external fabric.' But ther...

The present work deals with career counselling for people special needs based on the paradigm of positive psychology, which is becoming increasingly relevant in and therapeutic processes. It an approach to working clients strengths individual represents a shift – departure from deficits weaknesses. empirical study established prevalence this Slovenian elementary secondary school counsellors. re...

Telepresence robots are increasingly used to support remote social interaction. Telerobots allow the user move a camera and microphone at location in real time – often with display of user’s face robot. These can increase quality life for people special needs, who are, instance, bed bound. However, interface accessibility barriers have made them difficult use some people. Still, no state-of-the...