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| IndeeLift: Human lifting tools for greater independence |
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IndeeLift offers human lifting tools that provide greater independence and safety for people with mobility impairment and their caregivers. It is a device that helps caregivers lift, transfer and transport patients in acute, post-acute, long-term and home care environments. At the same time, it can support people who live alone.
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| Karina Sturm – That's how she rolls |
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Writing a book – a dream for many people. For Karina Sturm, it was a chance to accept her diagnosis. By giving advice, she wants to enable other people to do what she has managed to do herself: to become an active part of their own disease management and to live a self-determined life. How she rolls otherwise, she tells us on REHACARE.com.
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| Interview with Mr. Qiu Yisong: Founder of the "Three Feet" guesthouse |
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Qiu Yisong, who hails from Yanshan, Cangzhou, in Hebei province, had his left leg amputated above the knee in 2010 due to a car accident. Currently he lives in Dali, in Yunnan province, and is the founder of the "Three Feet" guesthouse.
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| How supervisors can create a better work environment for deaf or hard-of-hearing employees |
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Hearing loss cases are climbing globally — 1 in 5 adults are affected — along with a growing number of older workers who are more likely to experience hearing loss. A new study sheds light on how the severity of an employee's hearing loss can impact their experience at work — and the steps managers and employers can take to create a more inclusive environment for deaf or hard-of-hearing employees.
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| AI enables greater mobility: Personalized finger joint implants from a 3D printer |
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The remobilization of finger joints that have been damaged by illness or injury is an emerging market in the field of demand-driven patient care. The FingerKIt consortium, which brings together five Fraunhofer institutes, uses AI to develop personalized 3D-printed joint implants so that these delicate finger parts can be replaced when necessary.
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| Mencap receives £500,000 funding from Google.org to help support people with a learning disability online |
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Google.org announced their support for learning disability charity Mencap, granting the charity an incredible £500,000 to help it support people with a learning disability as they navigate the internet
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