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Arm Rehabilitation at Home for People with Stroke: Staying Safe: Encouraging Results from the Co-designed LifeCIT Programme

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This chapter discusses the need for arm rehabilitation in people with stroke and mechanisms for rehabilitation, providing justification for the growing role for technology. The challenges of designing for a home environment are discussed along with results from a survey identifying the most important factors in arm rehabilitation technologies for both healthcare professionals and patients and carers. The development and pilot of an arm and hand rehabilitation technology in people’s homes is discussed, including results and patients’ feedback. A discussion regarding future development concludes this chapter.

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    Ann-Marie Hughes, Claire Meagher & Jane Burridge

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Hughes, AM., Meagher, C., Burridge, J. (2017). Arm Rehabilitation at Home for People with Stroke: Staying Safe: Encouraging Results from the Co-designed LifeCIT Programme. In: Kollak, I. (eds) Safe at Home with Assistive Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42890-1_5

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