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This web site provides resources to aging individuals. It includes studies, programs, tools, prevention services, among many others. This web site is a reliable resource that can be share in patient education. Our materials are designed to assist health professionals in learning about and engaging in activities of CDC's Healthy Aging Program and The Healthy Brain Initiative to promote independence andwellbeing. Access general health information for older adults. Get email updates To receive email updates about this page, enter your email address:

iPads and other technology "touch devices" are a wonderful new tool and may benefit children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) greatly. This is a really cool resource for trying to get an iPad funded for your child or student!

We could all use a little help with our documentation right? Found this link on pinterest with some great resources to help with our wording in our documentation. We want to sound professional and educated so we get billed right? This really helped me out some!

Awesome resource, thanks for posting. Documentation is something I have to pick up speed with and being able to use the right wording helps cut down my thesaurus time lol.

This helps, this is an area I am struggling with this semester!

This article has some insights about gay/bi/trans people and aging that many of us may not have thought about. Two that particularly stood out for me were the likelihood that LGBT elders may not have family to care for them and the invisibility of older LGBT people. In working with LGBT older clients, we should be aware of and open to the different experiences they may be having (and certainly will have gone through in their lives). This article was originally written on The Huffington Post by Robert Espinoza, the Seniored------ Director of Public Policy and Communications of Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE).

This is an interesting association called Adaptive Design Association that works with PT, OT, and parents to help make your own adaptive equipment out of cardboard and other resources.  You can design specific and client centered equipment that is very cost effective.     Truly amazing!

Information in this article includes edema control, wound/scar management, range of motion, splinting, strengthening, and soft-tissue mobilization. There is also information on desensitization and sensory reeducation following hand injury; such as using towels and immersion in various substances. Additionally, modalities are discussed such as fluidotherapy (heat), cryotherapy (cold), continuous passive motion (increases circulation, decreases edema) along with other modalities. Good information about treatment options for hand therapy.

I really like this resource. If you are doing level II fieldwork at an outpatient hand therapy setting you must print this and use it! I wish I had it when I was at KOC first semester. Great resource.

This is JANs website (The Job Accommodation Network). The accommodation information by Disability: A to Z provides a list of impairments and allows you to click on the one you are interested in. It then provides information of what types of work accommodations may need to be implemented and resources to find equipment.

I found this really neat resource for individuals going through the cancer process. This program is for the patients at Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center who are going through cancer treatments and the volunteers of this program will comfort them, provide them with information, or just sit with them when they are getting their treatment just to pass the time. All of the volunteers have had cancer so they understand the different aspects that it entails. This would be a great idea for other hospitals to implement.

OT and treatment for third degree burns.

this website is a great resource for anything shoulder related. Dr. Luks, MD provides answers to frequently asked questions and provides pictures and short video explanations for a few. If you click on the shoulder & elbow hyperlink you can find related info on shoulder dislocations, labrum tears, and rotator cuff injuries

There are several video resources located here LE Amputee. Narrated by Paddy Rossbach, RN, former President and CEO These demonstrations are to help you learn to manage after a lower extremity amputation. They are not to take the place of your regular rehabilitation or medical care; rather they should serve as a reference or reminder of what you are being taught.

resource of all kinds of adaptive equipment/catalog

Comprehensive list of cancer types from the National Cancer Institute that also includes, description, treatment, statistics, information, resources, and even clinical trials

EKR Foundation website has lots of good info and resources on grief, palliative care, support, and even financial help

This is a great resource for understanding spastic cerebral palsy.

Many clamoring for success in the competitive world- where resources are scarce and chased by too many- wish they could be more self-assured, self-confident and well, simply more assertive. Typical statements one hears include: "I wish I had voiced my idea earlier. Some one else has got the credit".

Would be a great resource for caregiver education!

Great tips on how to adapt a toy or anything else that needs a switch