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Baroni K
Marisa, 76 years old. Autonomy in daily life for a person with an outcome of cerebral ischemia
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Marisa is 76 years old, she is retired, widow and lived alone before the disease. After an ischemic brain injury affecting the right middle cerebral artery area, she has an emisyndrome with an important impairment of the left upper limb. Son and grandchildren do not understand her need of autonomy as they are willing to take the full burden of care , thus not letting Marisa return to her beloved house on the hills where she would like to live alone. Despite this situation, Marisa decided to recover her independence, demonstrating she can live alone. Actually the solutions adopted were aimed at organising her living environment, personal care and daily life activities that require manual manipulations. In particular, replacement strategies have been adopted, as well as low-tech aids (ergonomic comb, nail file with fitted handle...). Moreover a partial adaptation of the house was carried out by changing the kitchen equipment (to create an environment as ergonomic as possible) and making minor changes to the bathroom. The project also aims to highlight how fundamental the psychological individual motivation is during rehabilitation.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Marisa, 76 years old. Autonomy in daily life for a person with an outcome of cerebral ischemia
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Marisa is 76 years old, she is retired, widow and lived alone before the disease. After an ischemic brain injury affecting the right middle cerebral artery area, she has an emisyndrome with an important impairment of the left upper limb. Son and grandchildren do not understand her need of autonomy as they are willing to take the full burden of care , thus not letting Marisa return to her beloved house on the hills where she would like to live alone. Despite this situation, Marisa decided to recover her independence, demonstrating she can live alone. Actually the solutions adopted were aimed at organising her living environment, personal care and daily life activities that require manual manipulations. In particular, replacement strategies have been adopted, as well as low-tech aids (ergonomic comb, nail file with fitted handle...). Moreover a partial adaptation of the house was carried out by changing the kitchen equipment (to create an environment as ergonomic as possible) and making minor changes to the bathroom. The project also aims to highlight how fundamental the psychological individual motivation is during rehabilitation.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Pigini L, Liverani G
Bruno, 52 years old. Adaptation of the workplace for an English teacher, with myelopathy
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Bruno is a man aged 52 suffering from myelopathy with a disability recognized by 100%. Bruno uses a manual wheelchair, and is Professor of English, working at a major international language institute, but now gives English lessons at home, as the disease forces him to stay home for a long time. The type of task he has to carry out in itself is not characterized by a high level of risk but the case highlights some typical aspects of the home adaptation when having a disability. In this short presentation risks and inadequacies for home accessibility are highlighted, as well as the suitable design solution making the workplace more secure and protected.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Bruno, 52 years old. Adaptation of the workplace for an English teacher, with myelopathy
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Bruno is a man aged 52 suffering from myelopathy with a disability recognized by 100%. Bruno uses a manual wheelchair, and is Professor of English, working at a major international language institute, but now gives English lessons at home, as the disease forces him to stay home for a long time. The type of task he has to carry out in itself is not characterized by a high level of risk but the case highlights some typical aspects of the home adaptation when having a disability. In this short presentation risks and inadequacies for home accessibility are highlighted, as well as the suitable design solution making the workplace more secure and protected.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Pigini L, Liverani G
Stefano, 46 years old. Workplace adaptation for an employee with muscular dystrophy
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Stefano is a man aged 46 suffering from a particular form of muscular dystrophy, for which he was granted an accompanying disability by 100%. At present his major problems are the control of legs, balance and reduced muscle strength. Stefano works for a social cooperative that operates in the field of services for people with disabilities. In this short presentation inadequacies and potential risks arising from the performance of this particular work are highlighted, as well as the suitable design solution making the workplace more secure and protected.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Stefano, 46 years old. Workplace adaptation for an employee with muscular dystrophy
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Stefano is a man aged 46 suffering from a particular form of muscular dystrophy, for which he was granted an accompanying disability by 100%. At present his major problems are the control of legs, balance and reduced muscle strength. Stefano works for a social cooperative that operates in the field of services for people with disabilities. In this short presentation inadequacies and potential risks arising from the performance of this particular work are highlighted, as well as the suitable design solution making the workplace more secure and protected.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Caracciolo A
Assistive products for the restroom
Editorial data: Milano: Portale Siva Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: A room you frequently use is the bathroom. This is also an environment full of obstacles for people with disability or motor difficulties. This article focuses on special equipment and useful tecniques for a better use of the elements lying in the bathroom, included those little objects that can make the everyday activities easier.
Year of publication: 2003
Type of document: Not published
Last update: May 2013
Assistive products for the restroom
Editorial data: Milano: Portale Siva Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: A room you frequently use is the bathroom. This is also an environment full of obstacles for people with disability or motor difficulties. This article focuses on special equipment and useful tecniques for a better use of the elements lying in the bathroom, included those little objects that can make the everyday activities easier.
Year of publication: 2003
Type of document: Not published
Last update: May 2013
De Luca D
Solo et pensoso i più deserti campi vo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti: il caso di Roberta
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) Roberta is 38 years old and from seven he cohabits with the outcomes of one ***meningoencefalomielite. One moves slowly and all that that carries out them turns out hard. It lives in a insufficient accessible house, ***dalla quale which it exits least because it is placed to the third plan and without elevator. In the course of the years its clinical conditions are gotten worse and have brought to light some problems in many of the activities that it carries out: it is get tiredded fastly in the way, in making the stairs, washing themselves and the execution of many of the house matters. It has had to diminish its activities of the free time and would want to find of the solutions for being able to go to make the expense or in order more independently to turn for the city and the historical center, it would want to better know the assistive devices that could serve them, would want to find of the solutions in order to wash itself in the bathtub with little expenditure than energies, in order to more comfortably use the stoves, the sink and the washbasin. A manual wheelchair gets, tu does not succeed to use it in the apartment because the premises too much are torqued, has achieved the special patent and gets an automobile with adaptations for the guide who does not succeed to take advantage of to full load ***dal the moment that does not know the roads well. Leaving ***dall' the analysis of the demands from she formulated and considering the assistive devices of which already it arranges, cover the stages in order to reach to find of the solutions to its domestic problems, of mobility and knowledge. The objective of the project is multiple and consists in supplying one greater independence to Roberta, giving one answer to its demands, optimizing its residual abilities and supplying new resources.
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Solo et pensoso i più deserti campi vo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti: il caso di Roberta
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) Roberta is 38 years old and from seven he cohabits with the outcomes of one ***meningoencefalomielite. One moves slowly and all that that carries out them turns out hard. It lives in a insufficient accessible house, ***dalla quale which it exits least because it is placed to the third plan and without elevator. In the course of the years its clinical conditions are gotten worse and have brought to light some problems in many of the activities that it carries out: it is get tiredded fastly in the way, in making the stairs, washing themselves and the execution of many of the house matters. It has had to diminish its activities of the free time and would want to find of the solutions for being able to go to make the expense or in order more independently to turn for the city and the historical center, it would want to better know the assistive devices that could serve them, would want to find of the solutions in order to wash itself in the bathtub with little expenditure than energies, in order to more comfortably use the stoves, the sink and the washbasin. A manual wheelchair gets, tu does not succeed to use it in the apartment because the premises too much are torqued, has achieved the special patent and gets an automobile with adaptations for the guide who does not succeed to take advantage of to full load ***dal the moment that does not know the roads well. Leaving ***dall' the analysis of the demands from she formulated and considering the assistive devices of which already it arranges, cover the stages in order to reach to find of the solutions to its domestic problems, of mobility and knowledge. The objective of the project is multiple and consists in supplying one greater independence to Roberta, giving one answer to its demands, optimizing its residual abilities and supplying new resources.
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Di Benedetto MR
Le sue mille possibilità nonostante tutto: il caso di Francesco
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) Francesco is a boy of sixteen years with outcomes of Infantile Cerebral Paralysis and remarkable visual problems, situation that has influenced in decisive way in the development of its cognitive abilities. He is equipped with remarkable wants of living and to get in contact with with the others. Continuation ***dalla writing in ***fisioterapico treatment ***dall' the age of three years has caught up one currently discreet ***deambulatoria independence. In this period it is inserted in one before advanced and it attends a socio-educational center. The project exposed in the thesis, aiming to the conquest of a greater independence, previews the use of assistive devices actions to ***rendergli the more satisfactory life in three fields: 1) external mobility through the location of a manageable wheelchair for he and the relatives or the operating ones who turn around to he. It has been chosen the wheelchair to rear driven. 2) Independence in the treatment of the own linked person in particular at the moment of the bath: the seat for bathtub is proposed. 3) computer based Accessibilities and possibility of writing through the location of opportune adaptations for computer and specific programs. They have been chosen: expanded special keyboard, emulator of keyboard, software for decode information video, software for magnified visualization, software for learning of the mathematical one, software for learning of the monetary value, software for the exercise of ***abilita' perceptive, software in order to design, software for processing of texts. Completed a detailed analysis of the numerous offered proposals, having every remarkable advantages in a sense or the other, have been operated one chosen ***oculata also in sight of the economic implication. As far as the first point, the wheelchair already has been granted. On more soon the procedure will set off because the other chosen assistive devices and proposals for the others can be supplied also two points.
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Le sue mille possibilità nonostante tutto: il caso di Francesco
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) Francesco is a boy of sixteen years with outcomes of Infantile Cerebral Paralysis and remarkable visual problems, situation that has influenced in decisive way in the development of its cognitive abilities. He is equipped with remarkable wants of living and to get in contact with with the others. Continuation ***dalla writing in ***fisioterapico treatment ***dall' the age of three years has caught up one currently discreet ***deambulatoria independence. In this period it is inserted in one before advanced and it attends a socio-educational center. The project exposed in the thesis, aiming to the conquest of a greater independence, previews the use of assistive devices actions to ***rendergli the more satisfactory life in three fields: 1) external mobility through the location of a manageable wheelchair for he and the relatives or the operating ones who turn around to he. It has been chosen the wheelchair to rear driven. 2) Independence in the treatment of the own linked person in particular at the moment of the bath: the seat for bathtub is proposed. 3) computer based Accessibilities and possibility of writing through the location of opportune adaptations for computer and specific programs. They have been chosen: expanded special keyboard, emulator of keyboard, software for decode information video, software for magnified visualization, software for learning of the mathematical one, software for learning of the monetary value, software for the exercise of ***abilita' perceptive, software in order to design, software for processing of texts. Completed a detailed analysis of the numerous offered proposals, having every remarkable advantages in a sense or the other, have been operated one chosen ***oculata also in sight of the economic implication. As far as the first point, the wheelchair already has been granted. On more soon the procedure will set off because the other chosen assistive devices and proposals for the others can be supplied also two points.
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Pirri F.
The prevention of falls of the elderly at home
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2010-2011
Year of publication: 2011
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2011
The prevention of falls of the elderly at home
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2010-2011
Year of publication: 2011
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2011
Terranova A M
Progetto per la realizzazione di un Sportello Informazioni Disabili Anziani nell’ambito del Centro Diurno del Comune di Padova
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: English translation not available
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Progetto per la realizzazione di un Sportello Informazioni Disabili Anziani nell’ambito del Centro Diurno del Comune di Padova
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: English translation not available
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Tonussi E
Questo mio piede sinistro: il caso di Clemy
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) Clemy is a woman 52 years old slices from spastic-dystonic tetraparesis in outcomes of suffering ***perinata them. For the motor panel that introduces, it is completely employee in the activities of treatment of himself, in the transfers, the movements, feeding themselves. Since small Clemy has always searched independence: in the movements, the choices, tu above all in the communication with the others. They give approximately two years, later on to an unexpected worsening of the motor panel, Clemy is not more in a position to managing the electronic wheelchair, ago fatigue to use the PC (with which it interacts with aims them in metal applied to the left foot, one normal keyboard with shield, simplified access of Windows), introduces difficulty in the maintenance of the posture seated with consequent diffuse pain. Clemy would want moreover to be able to call aid in every moment in need case, and to ulteriorly facilitate the mother who assists it in the transfers and the management of the bath. Its demand, clear and aimed, arrives to Our Service through a letter written up from same she, than, as a result of assesment of the case with hospital admission in Our Structure, orients to us to consider an participation in following ambles to you: posture and mobility, treatment of the own person, computer based accessibility and writing, personal emergency.
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004
Questo mio piede sinistro: il caso di Clemy
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2003-2004
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) Clemy is a woman 52 years old slices from spastic-dystonic tetraparesis in outcomes of suffering ***perinata them. For the motor panel that introduces, it is completely employee in the activities of treatment of himself, in the transfers, the movements, feeding themselves. Since small Clemy has always searched independence: in the movements, the choices, tu above all in the communication with the others. They give approximately two years, later on to an unexpected worsening of the motor panel, Clemy is not more in a position to managing the electronic wheelchair, ago fatigue to use the PC (with which it interacts with aims them in metal applied to the left foot, one normal keyboard with shield, simplified access of Windows), introduces difficulty in the maintenance of the posture seated with consequent diffuse pain. Clemy would want moreover to be able to call aid in every moment in need case, and to ulteriorly facilitate the mother who assists it in the transfers and the management of the bath. Its demand, clear and aimed, arrives to Our Service through a letter written up from same she, than, as a result of assesment of the case with hospital admission in Our Structure, orients to us to consider an participation in following ambles to you: posture and mobility, treatment of the own person, computer based accessibility and writing, personal emergency.
Year of publication: 2004
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: December 2004