Rehab on Wheels: A Pilot Study of Tablet-Based Wheelchair Training for Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alternative and innovative strategies such as mHealth and eLearning are becoming a necessity for delivery of rehabilitation services. For example, older adults who require a wheelchair receive little, if any, training for proficiency with mobility skills. This substantive service gap is due in part to restricted availability of clinicians and challenges for consumers to attend appointments. A research team of occupational therapists and computer scientists engaged clinicians, consumers, and care providers using a participatory action design approach. A tablet-based application, Enhancing Participation In the Community by improving Wheelchair Skills (EPIC Wheels), was developed to enable in-chair home training, online expert trainer monitoring, and trainee-trainer communi

SUBMITTER: Giesbrecht EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5454553 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature