CDHA CAAR » assistive technology http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo Current Awareness in Aging Research Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:21:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 CAAR – US Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Report – May 15, 2013 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=5143 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=5143#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 21:19:40 +0000 admin http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=5143 “Accelerating Adoption of Assistive Technology to Reduce Physical Strain among Family Caregivers of the Chronically Disabled Elderly Living at Home,” (January 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 109p.).

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]]> http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?feed=rss2&p=5143 0 CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – August 6, 2012 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2435 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2435#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:33:33 +0000 admin http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=2435 A. “Informing Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Patients with Comorbidity: Availability of Necessary Information in Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases,” by Cynthia M. Boyd, Daniela Vollenweider, and Milo A. Puhan (PLoS ONE 7(8): e41601. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041601, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).

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B. “Quantitative Normative Gait Data in a Large Cohort of Ambulatory Persons with Parkinson’s Disease,” by Chris J. Hass, Paul Malczak, Joe Nocera, Elizabeth L. Stegemöller, Aparna Shukala, Irene Malaty, Charles E. Jacobson, Michael S. Okun, and Nick McFarland (PLoS ONE 7(8): e42337. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042337, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 5p.).

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C. “Effectiveness of Family Meetings for Family Caregivers on Delaying Time to Nursing Home Placement of Dementia Patients: A Randomized Trial,” by Karlijn J. Joling, Harm W. J. van Marwijk, Henriette E. van der Horst, Philip Scheltens, Peter M. van de Ven, Bregje A. Appels, and Hein P. J. van Hout (PLoS ONE 7(8): e42145. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042145, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).

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D. “Technology Acceptance for an Intelligent Comprehensive Interactive Care (ICIC) System for Care of the Elderly: A Survey-Questionnaire Study,” by Alice M. K. Wong, Wei-Han Chang, Pei-Chih Ke, Chun-Kai Huang, Tsai-Hsuan Tsai, Hsien-Tsung Chang, Wann-Yun Shieh, Hsiao-Lung Chan, Chih-Kuang Chen, and Yu-Cheng Pei (PLoS ONE 7(8): e40591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040591, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).

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E. “Single-Channel Electrophysiology Reveals a Distinct and Uniform Pore Complex Formed by {alpha}-Synuclein Oligomers in Lipid Membranes,” by Felix Schmidt, Johannes Levin, Frits Kamp, Hans Kretzschmar, Armin Giese, and Kai Botzel (PLoS ONE 7(8): e42545. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042545, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).

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]]> http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?feed=rss2&p=2435 0 CAAR – Conferencealerts.com Gerontology Conferences – March 14, 2012 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=866 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=866#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:28:57 +0000 admin http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/cinfo/?p=866 Conferencealerts.com has recently added the following gerontology related conferences:

May 10, 2012: The Psychological Aspects of Physical Activity and Health Across the Lifespan–Birmingham, UK

Jul. 24, 2012: 6th international Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (i-CREATe)–Singapore

Nov. 5, 2012: Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference–Vancouver, Canada

Nov. 19, 2012: 11th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing -Making an Impact–Brisbane, Australia

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