$2M virtual reality trial to gauge impact on senior living residents with dementia
The Phase II trial will evaluate how virtual family engagement affects quality of life for 400 older adults in 12 U.S. long-term care communities.
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Touch-screen tool helps speed upper limb stroke recovery
A new rehabilitation system is designed to promote motor, cognitive and functional ability in people who have suffered a stroke.
Stroke survivors can get therapy via virtual reality platform, study finds
Multi-user mode appears to be particularly engaging in a VR platform that brings together stroke survivors and remote rehabilitation therapists.
How skilled nursing facilities are using virtual reality to enhance resident stays
The use of virtual reality can help improve the lives of seniors with mobility problems who require physical rehabilitation and for those residents who are unable to leave the facility.
A Day In the Life: Taking a walk on the virtual side
As the leaves were falling outside Ebenezer Minneapolis last fall, a new reality was taking hold inside.
‘Virtual hands’ take stroke rehabilitation into a new realm, researchers believe
3-D glasses soon might be seen in long-term care facilities as well as movie theaters, thanks to a potential breakthrough in stroke rehabilitation. Stroke survivors in a study successfully used a virtual reality system to activate parts of their brain linked to motor skills, researchers recently announced.
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