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Easy Read: How disability models affect person-centeredness in home and community-based services
This clear language document provides background and definitions to help you understand the concepts and ideas presented in our policy brief, "The Influence of Disability Models on Person-Centeredness in Home and Community-Based Services."
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Easy Read: How disability models affect person-centeredness in home and community-based services
EASY READ: How disability models affect person-centeredness in home and community-based services
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PAPER: Robotic locomotor training more cost-effective than conventional training for patients with complete spinal cord injuries
For patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI), locomotor training to improve or recover motor function after injury is a cornerstone of rehabilitation therapy. A new study reported in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation found that the cost-effectiveness of the type of locomotor training received – traditional versus robotic – depends on the severity of the injury.
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Policy Brief: The Influence of Disability Models on Person-Centeredness in Home and Community-Based Services
This brief explores the medical, social, and biopsychosocial models of disability, their relationship with evolving frameworks of person-centeredness, and implications for providers and others who deliver services and supports
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Collaborator Spotlight - Ari Houser: COVID-19 proves the critical importance of data
HCBS Participant Council member Ari Houser is senior methods adviser for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), where he has been employed for 18 years.
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Gaps in research and services persist for Americans with disabilities as they age
Experts have identified several needs for older adults with and without disabilities that would enable them to thrive in their communities.
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Transition planning for young adults with disabilities complicated by COVID-19
For young people with disabilities, the passage into adulthood comes with a marker that is even more fraught than these existential questions: aging out of youth supports and services and into adult services, often with little to no guidance in the process.
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Barriers to Access and Utilization of Care Persist for Individuals with Disabilities in Rural and Urban Settings
Where a person with disability lives, whether in a rural or urban area, affects the barriers they experience.
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Rural Seniors and People with Disabilities Face Challenges Accessing Long-term Services and Supports
In order to meet the growing demand for LTSS, states must adjust their spending and invest more money and workforce development in home and community-based services (HCBS).
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Self-advocate Héctor Ramírez says Resilience Has Helped Them Adapt to Challenging Circumstances
Héctor Ramirez has held many titles throughout their life. They have been the chair of the Access for All Underserved Cultural Communities at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and they serve on the board of Disability Rights California, the largest protection and advocacy group (P&A) in the country.
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Tonie Sadler Uses Lived Experience and Professional Life to Build the Future of Inclusion
Tonie Sadler, a postdoctoral fellow at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, specializes in disability health policy, poverty, and disparities research.
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Participant Council Member Latoya Maddox Works to Normalize Disability
Latoya Maddox, an Independent Living Specialist at Liberty Resources, and a Participant Council member for the Rehabilitation Research Training Center on Home and Community-based Services at SRAlab, never expected to work in her position.
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