A large number of impairments and disabilities in human body are increasing day by day because of different reasons like accidents, age, paralysis attack, etc. So disabilities increase in human body and also dependency on other people the quality of life decreasing day by day. The disabled or aged people need caretaker to take care of them and to help them to do movement. So, they always need s...

An integral part of the German National Socialist ‘bio-political developmental dictatorship’ programme, ‘euthanasia’ involved the murder of over 300,000 physically or mentally disabled persons in National Socialist Germany and its occupied territories, including children in ‘special children’s wards’ (Kinderfachabteilungen). Using the concept of traumascape as past trauma embodied at a site and...

One hundred and forty patients seen in a suburban walk-in walk-out clinic over a period of 30 days were studied. Twenty-eight (20 per cent) of them were found to be primarily psychiatrically disabled, 83 (59.3 per cent) primarily physically disabled and the diagnosis of the rest (20.7 per cent) was uncertain. The psychiatric patients were found to be suffering from anxiety and depressive states...

a Decentralized Robot System for Feeding the Disabled M. Bishay, M. E. Cambron, K. Negishi , R. A. Peters IIy, and Kazuhiko Kawamura Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision pp. 335-340, Coral Gables, FL, 21-23 November 1995 Abstract ISAC is a distributed robotic feeding system...

OBJECTIVE To assess the social and financial burden of parents of children with locomotor disability. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Institute for Physically Handicapped (IPH), Delhi, where parents of 100 locomotor disabled children of age group 6 to 15 years were interviewed to estimate the socioeconomic burden of caregiving their children. RESULTS The study observed ...

User interfaces of application programs are usually not designed for the physically disabled [VAN93]. Here we introduce a program for Apple Macintosh computers and PCs using MSWindows that do assist handicapped users in their interaction with standard application programs. The basic principle is to interact with an interface agent and not with the target application itself, in particular text i...

Within the past 10 years, technology has provided members of the seating team with new approaches in dealing with severely physically disabled children and adults. Positioning is often the first step in overall provision of technical aids. Before physically disabled individuals can operate augmentative communication devices, computer keyboards or other assistive or rehabilitative devices, they ...

The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (1970) is an expression of the increasing attention being paid to the needs of the handicapped in our society. The most severely physically handicapped represent only a small proportion of the total who are physically disabled (Harris, 1971) but their degree of dependency often makes it necessary to care for them in institutions, either in the form ...

This paper reviews recent research on the physical and mental health status of homeless single adults and briefly summarizes definitional, sampling, and measurement problems. It presents findings from research examining the physical health status of homeless adults; the data suggest that homelessness places people at greater risk for specific health problems and also complicates treatment. The ...