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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Stats and Facts
- Aging - an Introduction
Overview
- Clinical - Functional Changes
- Psychological Issues/Changes
- Family, Caregiving and Community Issues
- Aging With a Disability
- Resources
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In
the early 1940s, before the widespread availability of antibiotics, life
expectancy following a spinal cord injury was only about 1.5 years. Today,
average life expectancy for someone sustaining a spinal cord injury is
about 80% of "normal" life expectancy, depending upon the level
of injury.
Model
SCI Care Systems “Model System Centers across the United States work
together to demonstrate improved care, maintain a national database, participate
in independent and collaborative research and provide continuing education
relating to spinal cord injury.
Spinal
Cord Injury Facts & Figures at a Glance 2008 – SpinalCord Injury
Information Network
Aging
and Spinal Cord Injury
20% of persons with SCI are over 60 years of age and the average age
is 40. Approximately 40% of persons with SCI are over age 45 and 25% are
more than 20 years post injury.
Spinal Cord Injury Statistics
SCI: Fact sheet (CDC)
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2.
AGING - AN INTRODUCTION |
Effects of Aging on the Brain (Merck Manual)
A Closer Look at Aging
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5. PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES & CHANGES |
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CEU Articles #5 |
Aging
with Spinal Cord Injury
- Issues
of Aging with Spinal Cord Injury
- Changing
Care Needs
- “Psychological
Adaptation
- Changing
Attitudes Toward Life
- Personal
Perspectives
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Life Satisfaction Among Persons with Spinal Cord Injury (Journal of Rehabilitation, July-Sept 2000)
Adjustment to spinal cord injury: a review of coping styles contributing to the process
Depression Among People Aging with Spinal Cord Injury
Aging, spinal cord injury and quality of life: structural relationships
Emotion-focused coping: a primary defense against stress for people living with spinal cord injury (Journal of Rehabilitation, Jan-March 2008)
Ask the Psychologist About Managing Spinal Cord Injuries
Life Satisfaction Among persons with Spinal Cord Injuries
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FAMILY, CAREGIVING &
COMMUNITY ISSUES |
Caregiving
Long-term Care Givers
Identifying the unmet independent living needs of persons with spinal cord injury
Paralyzed Veterans of America's First Vocational Rehabilitation Center for Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury Exceeds Expectations
Caring for a patient who lives with a spinal cord injury
“ Someone with a chronic spinal cord injury needs special care when hospitalized for any reason.”
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7. AGING WITH A DISABILITY |
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Health Outcomes of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
A life-Course Perspective: Aging with Long-Term Disability
Development of Survey Instrument – Changing Needs and Life Circumstances of Persons Aging with Disability
Impact of physical exercise on controlling secondary conditions associated with spinal cord injury
Aging with Disability
Funding Sources – SpinalCord Injury Information Network
Equipment - SpinalCord Injury Information Network Legislative Issues – SpinalCord Injury Information Network
Research Update – SpinalCord Injury Information Network The Travis Roy Foundation – Dedicated to Spinal Cord Injury: Survivors and Research |
