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Ferraro M
Paolo, age 23, motor disability: improving independence at home and work integration
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
Abstract: Because of an accident at work that caused the amputation of the patient's upper limbs a social and work reintegration - helped by suitable prostheses and technical aids - was planned.
Year of publication: 2003
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2003
Paolo, age 23, motor disability: improving independence at home and work integration
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
Abstract: Because of an accident at work that caused the amputation of the patient's upper limbs a social and work reintegration - helped by suitable prostheses and technical aids - was planned.
Year of publication: 2003
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2003
Pigini L, Liverani G
Antonietta, 46 years old. Workplace adaptation for a bank employee, with an outcome of childhood polio
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Antonietta is a woman aged 46 with a disability recognized by 74% due to polio in childhood. She also suffers from bilateral carpal tunnel. Currently she uses a pair of crutches and canes for moving outdoors. Antonietta works as a clerk in a bank. This short presentation highlights potential risks arising from the performance of this particular work and presents a suitable design solution for her safety at work.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: May 2013
Antonietta, 46 years old. Workplace adaptation for a bank employee, with an outcome of childhood polio
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: Antonietta is a woman aged 46 with a disability recognized by 74% due to polio in childhood. She also suffers from bilateral carpal tunnel. Currently she uses a pair of crutches and canes for moving outdoors. Antonietta works as a clerk in a bank. This short presentation highlights potential risks arising from the performance of this particular work and presents a suitable design solution for her safety at work.
Year of publication: 2009
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
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
Ferraro M
Independence ToDay – prosthesis as an instrument for autonomy: the case study of Paolo
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 1999-2000
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) The work proposes the case of Paolo, young person of years 23, amputated bilateral to the third party tos be distant them of forearm. Desire to come true itself, of always giving the best of himself ignoring the prejudices of the others, it wants of living intensely and to socialize, has convinced it to apply, in our Center, the prostheses. Prosthesis with which he it has measured the own diversity, confronting the own abilities, the own performances, just the role, the own physical and behavioral characteristics with those of “the normal” individuals. A magical meeting, that one with the assistive devices, able of giving one new sport, university and working life to a boy who is itself uncovered able to prevail on its misadventures. In the job that follows the aspects are analyzed several and the several ones it is made that they have lead Paolo and who ***has relazionato itself with he, to a satisfactory level of gratification in seeing caught up the main which set objectives: treatment of the own person, independence of mobility, working re-introduction, continuation of the studies in the university, resumption of its sport: tennis.
Year of publication: 2000
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: May 2003
Independence ToDay – prosthesis as an instrument for autonomy: the case study of Paolo
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 1999-2000
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) The work proposes the case of Paolo, young person of years 23, amputated bilateral to the third party tos be distant them of forearm. Desire to come true itself, of always giving the best of himself ignoring the prejudices of the others, it wants of living intensely and to socialize, has convinced it to apply, in our Center, the prostheses. Prosthesis with which he it has measured the own diversity, confronting the own abilities, the own performances, just the role, the own physical and behavioral characteristics with those of “the normal” individuals. A magical meeting, that one with the assistive devices, able of giving one new sport, university and working life to a boy who is itself uncovered able to prevail on its misadventures. In the job that follows the aspects are analyzed several and the several ones it is made that they have lead Paolo and who ***has relazionato itself with he, to a satisfactory level of gratification in seeing caught up the main which set objectives: treatment of the own person, independence of mobility, working re-introduction, continuation of the studies in the university, resumption of its sport: tennis.
Year of publication: 2000
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: May 2003