CROR Outcomes, HCBS Quality Matters, MRSCICS Matters

CROR Outcomes is a quarterly newsletter featuring research updates on our projects at our RRTC on Employment and Disability.

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  • Racial Disparities in Health Care Extend to Medical Ðǿմ«Ã½ÊÓÆµ

    Learn more about racial disparities in health care extend to medical research and how researcher Dominique Kinnett-Hopkins wants to change them.

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  • Charles Bombardier

    Learn more about Charles Bombardier and his combining behavioral medicine and rehabilitation psychology to help people with disabilities.

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  • Rudy Chiu: Helping Patients Understand Rehabilitation Measures

    Learn more about rudy chiu and how he uses medical informatics to help patients understand rehabilitation measures.

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  • Laurie Scherrer: Helping People with Dementia Live Fulfilling Lives

    Laurie Scherrer had two forms of dementia, specifically early-onset Alzheimer¡¯s disease and frontotemporal lobe degeneration. Eventually, Laurie became an active member of DAA and now serves on its Board of Directors.

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  • Direct Care Worker Shortage Crisis

    As the U.S. economy recovers, the shortage of direct care workers who provide home and community-based services (HCBS) has become acute around the country.

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  • Medical Stigma and Lack of HCBS Challenge for People with Demetia

    As part of the overall effort to improve the delivery of care for people receiving HCBS, the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Ðǿմ«Ã½ÊÓÆµ received a 2020 grant from ACL to develop and test person-centered outcome measures for people with disabilities, including dementia, who are receiving home- and community-based services.

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  • Study: Better Quality Measurement

    While some orthoses are prefabricated, some patients require a custom-made device. In that case, orthotists make plaster casts of the patient¡¯s limb and craft the orthosis to fit as well as possible.

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