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RAT Group Away Day
On Tuesday 25th June the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies(RAT) group attended their away day in Mappin Hall. Here they enjoyed a
number of activities including team building exercises, an inspiring talk entitled “Girl Power” by Professor Pam Enderby, updates
regarding CATCH (Centre for AssistedTechnology and Connected Healthcare), a question and answer session between
staff members and the senior management team as well as a “Gone in 60 Seconds" session. The latter required staff members to talk about their projects in 60
seconds to update the rest of the group on their projects.
Overall the group felt it was a
successful event and look forward to the away day next year!
Please see below information regarding
some of the projects presented during the “Gone in 60 Seconds” session:
“Ready Steady Go” Usability Study:
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| "Ready Steady Go" Telehealth Implementation Toolkit (Brownsell & Ellis, 2012). |
The “Ready Steady Go” Telehealth
Implementation Toolkit (version 1) was launched in September 2012 and provides
a five step framework that can be used to help guide organisations when
implementing a telehealth service. The toolkit is structured around the analogy
of preparing for, undertaking and reviewing a race. This project is currently
testing the usability of the document by asking telehealth experts who have
either read or used all or part of the toolkit their opinions of it during semi
structured qualitative interviews. The authors view “Ready Steady Go” as a
working document thus the results from this study will inform the next version
of the toolkit.The "Ready Steady Go" Toolkit is available to download here. – Lauren Powell
The SCRIPT (Supervised Care and Rehabilitation
Involving Personal Telerobotics)
project:
“Following
the formative evaluation phase, the trial of the first SCRIPT system started
which explores changes in arm and hand function and user acceptance after technology-supported
training at home using a longitudinal pre- and post-design. Participants will
receive home-based training delivered by the SCRIPT system. Evaluation
is based on one baseline measurement pre-training and two evaluation
measurements post-training (within one week after training and follow-up after
two months)". – Dr Nasrin Nasr
The Valuing Active Life in Dementia (VALID) project
Sheffield site:
- 9 Occupational Therapists now recruited and delivering an Occuational
Therapy intervention to people with dementia and their carers in Sheffield,
living in the community
- Two focus groups: one for carers of people with dementia, and one for
people with dementia are running over the next few weeks
Both these activities help explore the feasibility of the intervention
for a UK setting and will feed into the design of the pilot trial. - Becky Field
CACTUS (self
managed aphasia computer therapy after stroke) project:
The results of the RfPB/CLAHRC SY funded CACTUS have been included in
the new NICE stroke rehabilitation guidelines. ( http://guidance.nice.org.uk)
– Dr Rebecca Palmer
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