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A challenge facing hospice and geriatric teams is to give their patients the ‘fullest potential for living’ before death (Saunders, 1986). While their priorities are to relieve pain, provide physical and spiritual comfort, an important aspect of their task is to maintain the dignity and self respect of people in their care. Dependent patients, constrained by illness and disability, with no means of contributing to life, become apathetic and depressed. The provision of equipment which affords them some control of their environment, improves the quality of life and helps to dispel apathy and depression (Millard and Smith, 1981).
Provided by Possum Controls Ltd., which is a charity owned organization dedicated to the development and production of a wide range of equipment to help the physically and mentally handicapped, the deaf and the blind. Profits are devoted to research and the provision of back-up services.
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Schilling, R., Millard, P. (1988). Special Equipment for the Severely Disabled. In: Gilmore, A., Gilmore, S. (eds) A Safer Death. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8359-2_14
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