Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents

Inclusion Criteria

• •be seventeen (17) or older
• •be a manual wheelchair user, living in a long-term-care facility;
• •be expected to require the long-term use of a wheelchair (at least four \[4\] hours/week for at least eight \[8\] weeks), as reported by a clinical therapist;
• •be competent to give informed consent (as indicated by a Mini Mental State Examination score of 20 or higher) or have a proxy with power of attorney willing to provide consent,
• •have the verbal endorsement of the clinical therapist (if any) to participate;
• •have the written permission of the attending physician to participate;
• •be willing to take part in the study, including signing the consent after carefully reading it.
• •be seventeen (17) or older;
• •provide at least part-time \[at least one (1) hour/week\] wheelchair-handling care for a wheelchair user in a long-term-care facility;
• •be willing to take part in the study, including signing the consent form after carefully reading it.