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| Accessible traveling: foldable wheelchair by Revolve Mobility |
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How can traveling become more accessible and more self-determined for wheelchair users – especially when traveling by plane or taking a cab? This is the question Andrea Mocellin wanted to address when he started inventing Revolve Air. His solution: a wheelchair with foldable wheels and a foldable frame.
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| Highlights of REHACARE 2022 |
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Up close and live on site: REHACARE, the world's largest trade fair for rehabilitation and care, showed what the assistive technology industry has to offer in terms of technological innovations with numerous new and proven products to touch and try out. Whether rehabilitation, care, mobility or occupational participation – the diversity of the industry was omnipresent.
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| Rebecca Brunner – That's how she rolls |
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Rebecca Brunner likes to take her life into her own hands and gives every day the chance to be the best. Her prosthetic leg helps her to always try out new things and overcome new challenges. What she wants from her fellow human beings, what is particularly important to her in the assistive technology industry and how she rolls otherwise, the social media manager tells us on REHACARE.com.
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| ALS: Quantum partners with Team Gleason to provide seat elevation |
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Quantum Rehab® has entered into a multi-year sponsorship with the Team Gleason Foundation. Together, they want to ensure that no person living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has to go without an electric booster seat like iLevel®.
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| Sunrise Medical launches the QUICKIE ACCESS, a knee-pivot manual wheelchair |
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The company Sunrise Medical has announced the launch of the QUICKIE ACCESS. This is a manual wheelchair with knee swivel for independent locomotion with the benefits of tilt and recline.
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| Etac joins university research project about residential bathrooms |
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The aim of the project of the Ergonomics Division at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) entitled "Making bathrooms safer for all" is to research, identify and develop normative solutions in the bathroom sector to increase functionality. It also aims to improve the working environment for caregivers and increase the autonomy and safety of users.
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| Social media: Linguist researches inclusion of people with disabilities |
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As part of the "Digital Transformation" program, communicative strategies in social media for the inclusion of people with disabilities are being investigated. In addition to linguistic and communication science analyses, the research also focuses on formulation recommendations for companies, at the media, cultural institutions and political leaders.
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| Indiana University researchers receive $3.96 million to test dementia care app |
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The I-CARE 2 randomized clinical trial will measure the impact of Brain CareNotes, a mobile telehealth application, on informal caregivers of patients living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. The Indiana University researchers receive $3.96 million to test dementia care app.
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