Purpose: Stroke is the most disabling chronic condition, newly affecting 35000 persons in
Canada each year. Because of declining fatality, a growing number of persons will have to …

Background Efforts to augment post-stroke upper limb (UL) motor improvement include the
use of newer interventions such as noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) and task practice in …

Stroke patients often fail to resume full lives, even if they make a good physical recovery,
and social and leisure pursuits show a particular decline. The usual goals of rehabilitation …

Adaptation to stroke requires complex, long-term change in stroke survivors' lives. This study
aimed at identifying those factors that influence quality of life (QOL) of geriatric stroke …

Objective: The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) was used to measure function in
first-stroke patients on admission to and discharge from a rehabilitation center, and to …

Background Many people who have suffered a stroke require rehabilitation to help them
resume their previous activities and roles in their own environment, but only some of them …

Objective: To explore the relationship between subjective well-being and competence in
instrumental activities of daily living after stroke. Design: Cross-sectional with evaluation at …

Purpose: The aim was to describe and analyse the rehabilitation process of the geriatric
stroke patient from two perspectives; the treatment goals expressed by the staff and the …

Background and Purpose—For the survivors, activities of daily living, handicap, and
depression have a significant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). How the …

This paper provides an overview of the current research on community-based rehabilitation
(CBR) which can be found in the public domain. A brief background to the concept of CBR is …