Social Resources that Preserve Functional Independence after Memory Loss

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Glymour
Keyword(s):  
Memory Loss ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Social Resources

Social Resources That Preserve Functional Independence After Memory Loss

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Glymour ◽  
Pamela M. Rist ◽  
Jessica Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Memory Loss ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Social Resources

Impairment Rating and Spinal Cord Injuries: Revisiting the Guides

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Richard T. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injuries ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Multiple Organ ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
Impairment Ratings

Abstract This article addresses some criticisms of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) by comparing previously published outcome data from a group of complete spinal cord injury (SCI) persons with impairment ratings for a corresponding level of injury calculated using the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition. Results of the comparison show that impairment ratings using the sixth edition scale poorly with the level of impairments of activities of daily living (ADL) in SCI patients as assessed by the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) motor scale and the extended FIM motor scale. Because of the combinations of multiple impairments, the AMA Guides potentially overrates the impairment of paraplegics compared with that of quadriplegics. The use and applicability of the Combined Values formula should be further investigated, and complete loss of function of two upper extremities seems consistent with levels of quadriplegia using the SCI model. Some aspects of the AMA Guides contain inconsistencies. The concept of diminishing impairment values is not easily translated between specific losses of function per organ system and “overall” loss of ADLs involving multiple organ systems, and the notion of “catastrophic thresholds” involving multiple organ systems may support the understanding that variations in rating may exist in higher rating cases such as those that involve an SCI.

Social Resources Improve Long-Term Recovery From Alcoholism

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Humphreys ◽  
R. H. Moos ◽  
C. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Social Resources

Give and take: Social resources promote recovery among managers

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Grebner ◽  
J. Ragsdale ◽  
J. Basler
Keyword(s):  
Social Resources
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