A Study of the Housing Needs of Disabled Applicants to the Nottingham City Council Housing Department and the Problems Faced by Local Housing Providers in Meeting These Needs

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
P A Logan ◽  
M Batchvarova ◽  
C Read
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
City Council ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Local Concern ◽  
Council Housing

This study of the housing needs of disabled people and the problems faced by housing providers in Nottingham was carried out with a view to establishing a data base of adapted properties and disabled people. A small survey of 47 disabled people, with 22 respondents, reported problems when trying to find a new home. Less than a quarter of those who replied had been assessed prior to looking for a new home by an occupational therapist, while over half said that they would like help from an occupational therapist when choosing a new home. A survey of 42 housing providers found that, of the 26 respondents, over half had disabled people waiting for a property and a third had adapted properties that they were unable to let. These findings supported local concern about housing problems for disabled people and led to the development of the Disabled People and Adapted Properties Register (DPAPR). This register holds a computerised list of disabled people looking for a new home and of the adapted properties in Nottingham, for sale or for rent.

‘Until Disabled People Get Consulted …’: The Role of Occupational Therapy in Meeting Housing Needs

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Nocon ◽  
Nicholas Pleace
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Way

This article reports oh a study of the housing needs of people with disabilities (aged 16 to 65) in Shropshire. The study included interviews with disabled people and with frontline and managerial staff in several agencies, a survey of disabled people, and the analysis of quantitative data. The findings highlight the high level of need for adaptations and more appropriate housing for disabled people; the importance of greater user involvement in the way needs are identified and services provided; the need for reform of the Disabled Facilities Grant system; and the need for an integrated inter-agency approach to meeting disabled people's housing needs.

scholarly journals Relationship between Sleep Duration Trajectories and Self-Rated Depressive Symptoms in South Koreans with Physical Disabilities

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Su Jeong Yi ◽  
Yoo Mi Jeong ◽  
Jae-Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sleep Duration ◽  
Bayes Factor ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Physically Disabled People ◽  
The Relationship

Physically disabled persons can have sleep problems, which affects their mental health more than those in non-disabled people. However, there are few studies on the relationship between sleep duration and mental health targeting physically disabled people in South Korea, and existing studies on the disabled have mostly used data collected from convenience rather than nationally representative samples, limiting the generalization of the results. This study used data from the second wave of the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled (PSED, 2016–2018, 1st–3rd year). Participants included 1851 physically disabled individuals. The Chi-square test and generalized estimating equation (GEE) were used and the Akaike information criterion (AIC) value and the AIC log Bayes factor approximation were used to select sleep trajectories. This is the first study to elucidate multiple sleep trajectories in physically disabled people in Korea, and the relationship between sleep duration trajectories and self-rated depressive symptoms. People with physical disabilities who sleep more than 9 h have the highest risk of depression and need more intensive management as a priority intervention.

Biofeedback and the Computer

1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity Crofts ◽  
John Crofts
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Orthopaedic Patients ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
The Uk

A television programme on the benefits of technology for disabled people stimulated interest in the possibility of electromyographic techniques providing biofeedback via the computer. A review of the literature suggests that this subject is little publicized in the UK compared with other countries. The advent of the Myolink has facilitated computer-enhanced biofeedback for the occupational therapist. The use of the Myolink with orthopaedic patients is described.

Ethics and entangled embodiment: Bodies–materialities–organization

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Dale ◽  
Yvonne Latham
Keyword(s):  
Disabled People ◽  
Material World ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Radical Alterity ◽  
The Disabled

In this article, we are concerned with the ethical implications of the entanglement of embodiment and non-human materialities. We argue for an approach to embodiment which recognises its inextricable relationship with multiple materialities. From this, three ethical points are made: first, we argue for an ethical relation to ‘things’ not simply as inanimate objects but as the neglected Others of humanity’s (social and material) world. Second, there is a need to recognise different particularities within these entanglements. We draw on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas to think through how the radical alterity of these Others can be acknowledged, whilst also recognising our intercorporeal intertwining with them. Third, we argue that recognition of this interconnectedness and entanglement is a necessary ethical and political position from which the drawing of boundaries and creation of separations that are inherent in social organising can be understood and which contribute to the denigration, discrimination and dismissal of particular forms of embodiment, including those of non-human Others. In order to explore the ethical implications of these entanglements, we draw upon fieldwork in a large UK-based not-for-profit organisation which seeks to provide support for disabled people through a diverse range of services. Examining entanglements in relation to the disabled body makes visible and problematises the multiple differences of embodiments and their various interrelationships with materiality.

scholarly journals AUTOMATED INTELLIGENT RELAY COUPLED DOOR CONTROL SYSTEM USING ANDROID MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

2015 ◽  
pp. 192-195
Author(s):  
A.RAJESH KUMAR ◽  
C. DINESH ◽  
R. ARAVIND ◽  
SRIKRISHNA. C ◽  
PL. NAGARTHINAM
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Door Lock ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

The purpose of this project is to increase the knowledge of technology and services of smart homes for disabled people. There is a clear need for such new knowledge since the number of disabled people is significant. Indeed, new technologies and services of smart homes have the potential to increase effectiveness and efficiency of caring disabled. With right solutions there is a great potential to increase disabled persons' quality of life. The need for the development of such technologies and services increases due to the disabled individuals' desire to remain independent in their own homes, the increasing costs of health care, and the aging of the population. This article discusses the concept of secured door lock/unlock system for the differently able. The juxtaposition of safety vs. privacy can be alleviated with this technology. Moreover, as there is need to assist disabled to protect them from various forms of abuse, and prevent immoderation of pleasure giving activities.

scholarly journals SPEECH INTERACTIVE WEB APPLICATION SERVICES

2016 ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
DHANASHREE TAWARE ◽  
NAMRATA ATTKARE ◽  
DIVYA SINGH
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Current System ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Speech Interaction ◽  
The Web

As we know internet has become a very important factor in our day today life. It is a wide media for communication and exchange of ideas for people staying in any nook and corner of the world. We have proposed a system in which we are developing a speech interactive web application services. Our main aim is to provide these services to the special ones who are unable to make use of the current system so efficiently. In our proposed work we are mainly focusing on the WEB APPLICATIONS. Many a times the disabled people are unable to access internet, for them this system will help to download news, or even access their mails through speech. Our proposed system mainly deals with the ability to handle web applications along with the O.S, mouse and keyboard control through speech, so that they can be used by persons without the use of the hands to develop an interface between the computer and the user. In our proposal we have used SAPI .It provides commands to the main central application which is handled by the GUI. Thus we look forward to develop web application through speech interaction.

scholarly journals Design a Mobile Application for Children’s Tracking in Crowded Environments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanweer Alam ◽  
Abdirahman Ahmed Hadi ◽  
Rayyan Qari Shahabuddin Najam ◽  
Shamimul Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
To Come ◽  
Children First ◽  
Crowded Environments

Child Tracking System is a mobile application where the parent can monitor their children location in crowded environments. In addition to children, there is also the elderly people, and the disabled people, so the guidance or the person responsible of them can use this application to track their location. The parent or guidance side will have the application in which they can track, and on the other side, the child or the old person or the disabled person will have device that includes the GPS chip. The main goal of this research is to design an application with system that will help parents to keep track of their children, eventually reducing the cases in which the children or the other mentioned categories of people could be lost. The current used solution to this problem is that the children first have a wearable hand wrist in which they print their parent phone number, so when the child is lost there is a center in which the child is being taken and dealt with care till they contact the parent to come and pick the child up. The problem with the current way that it takes time, and there is a risk that child get totally lost or kidnapped before even reaching to any help, so the new way is better to even prevent them to go far away or to be lost for hours, thus the recovery here will be fast unlike the regular used way nowadays. That goal will be achieved throw systematically objectives starting from studying the existed systems, to planning and analysing, going to designing and implementing, and lastly, testing our own system.

scholarly journals Alternative means to access mediatic information for people with sensory impairments

Comunicar ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Antonio Rodríguez-Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Sensory Impairments ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
The Media

This paper aims at stating the difficulties which sensory disabled people face in order to access to mediatic information. However, instead of emphasizing and regretting at the difficulties, we try to evidence the needs which users demand to get a whole access to the media and, consequently, highlight their potencial towards the disabled social integration. The goal is to raise different professional's awareness: those which produce andlor make use of the mediato transmit information about their task importance and the possibility of adapting them, if necessary, for sensory disabled people, both related to technological or procedurd adaptations.El trabajo pretende poner de manifiesto las dificultades que manifiestan las personas con discapacidades sensoriales para el acceso a la información mediática. Ahora bien, más que enfatizar y lamentar tales dificultades procura evidenciar las necesidades que demandan los usuarios de los medios para conseguir un acceso integral a ellos y consecuentemente resaltar, en su caso, el potencial de los mismos para la integración social del deficiente. El propósito es concienciar a los distintos profesionales: aquellos que generan y/o se sirven de los medios para transmitir información de la relevancia de su tarea y de la posibilidad de adaptación, en su caso, para personas con problemas sensoriales, tanto con adaptaciones tecnológicas o de procedimiento.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN INKLUSIVITAS KEBERAGAMAAN ANTARA MASYARAKAT DENGAN PENYANDANG TUNA DAKSA MELALUI BIMBINGAN FIKIH IBADAH DI “RUMAH KASIH SAYANG” DESA KREBET JAMBON PONOROGO

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-38
Author(s):  
Afif Syaiful Mahmudin
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
The People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Village People ◽  
Research Questions

Persons with physical disabilities recorded under the auspices of the "Rumah Kasih Sayang" institution are 12 people. Ideally, the practice of worship should be carried out easily by everyone, but in fact there are still many people with disabilities who experience difficulties in implementing it, not even a few of them have left worship because of low religious-related understanding and lack of motivation from the community to include persons with disabilities. carry out daily worship obligations. These problems are experienced by people with disabilities, especially physically disabled in the "Rumah Kasih Sayang" in Krebet village. People with disabilities by the community are considered as groups who are no longer obliged to worship, they are sufficiently fostered with a variety of skills obtained from the institution, empowered by breeding goats from compensation without even being physically invited to pray together in the mosque or prayer room. Religious inclusiveness needs to be built between the community and the physically disabled, the community must be given an understanding that as long as the disabled person meets the taklif provisions, there is no privilege that disqualifies the obligation of worship for the disabled. The research questions are: 1) What are the implications of the fiqh guidance of worship for the disabled in the "Rumah Kasih Sayang" Krebet Jambon Village? 2) What are the implications of fiqh material for worship for the people of Krebet Jambon Village ?. To answer the formulation of the problem, the researcher used a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. The results of this study are: 1) Deaf people can practice well the procedures of daily worship in accordance with the fiqh hospitality of disabled people while being able to carry out the obligation to worship together with the surrounding community. 2) People get new insights about fiqh worship for people with disabilities, changing their negative stigma towards disabled people and leading to the realization of an inclusive religious culture in Krebet Jambon Ponorogo Village.

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