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Disability Parking Placard and License Plates - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin

Obtaining a disability parking placard for Midwestern States

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Listing: Adapted Clothing and Shoe Vendors

Selected list of vendors providing fashionable adapted clothing and shoes. Contemporary attractive fashions are available.

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Health and Wellness on a Continuum: Associated Conditions

Health and wellness are concepts that influence one’s quality of life; they comprise a dynamic state that everyone addresses throughout their lifetime. This state changes depending on other factors that enter into your life. Health and wellness include many areas of your life such as physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cognitive (thinking) areas.

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Listing: Used Donated Equipment and Devices

The following list identifies Chicago area and Illinois organizations that give and accept donated durable medical equipment and devices, including used wheelchairs, walkers, and other aids for mobility and puts them into the hands that need them.

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Infection Prevention - Hand Washing and Your Health

These resources will assist patients, families, and visitors in infection preventing and control. Examples of steps to promote health, and take charge of infection control are provided in this resource as well as sources to consult for more information.

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Safety Tips to Prevent Falls at Home

There are many things to help prevent falls in the home. This guide can assist in identifying potential risk factors and provide useful suggestions.

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Listing: Organ Transplant Resources

This resource provides a listing of organ transplant foundations that help people navigate through recovering with a new organ or limb.

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Evidence Based Practice and Critical Appraisal Tools

This is a resource to support nursing evidence based practice with tools to discover, identify, and use best patient care decision practices.

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Listing: National Caregiver Organizations

A caregiver can be a family member, partner, friend or paid home health care worker who provides daily care so that a person with a disability can continue to live at home .

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Service Animals - Understanding the laws

Many people, including health care professionals and other service providers, may be unsure of statutory requirements when interacting with an individual with a disability using a service animal. This source gives guidelines for proper requirements.

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