Pioneering initiative in the Basque country!: launch a collection of Videotutorial to train persons with disabilities and their families to achieve greater autonomy.

Рhemipl̩jicas people teach how to bedtime, scroll, dressing or cooking, among other things

-videos have been recorded in the new adapted housing hospital inaugurated recently in Arrasate-Mondragón

-audiovisual material – a total of 21 recordings – they hang gradually on internet with free and open access

Bilbao, February 2012.- the brain damage of the Aita Menni Hospital service and BBK have launched a collection of video tutorials to help people with disabilities and their families perform basic activities of everyday with a greater degree of autonomy.

Audiovisual material – a total of 21 videos – be hang gradually website hospital brain injury service to which can be accessed free of charge and from anywhere in the world.

The videos have been recorded in the new adapted housing hospital inaugurated recently in Arrasate-Mondragón. The property boasts motorized doors, cranes from ceiling to go from bed to the bathroom, systems of hands free and switches or plugs placed in proper position so that patients can use them.

In it, using more modern solutions of control environment, support, and the latest domotic technologies, patients learn to develop more everyday tasks of his life with a high degree of autonomy.

The videos will show that the floor adapted for patients with brain damage of the Aita Menni Hospital of Mondragon is a place of training for immersed in rehabilitation therapies patients learn to overcome barriers and know, along with their families, devices and solutions that may acquire or install at home and practice with them.

Before the release of this pioneering initiative in the Basque country, the Chief of service of brain damage of Hospital Aita Menni, Ignacio Quemada, asserts that with the production and dissemination of these videos online intend to get disabled people and carers, and professionals so they know this initiative ”, which, according to details of the expert, serves, among other things, to display the tableware and cutlery which provided food for persons with motor disabilities, as well as the characteristics of adapted housing ”.

The content of the videos are very varied. In particular, they will teach hemipléjicas people to move with hoists and cranes, dressing, getting up from the bed to the Chair, the Chair to the toilet, and the wheelchair to the car.
They will also show how to function in a cuisine adapted for the preparation of food, and will present, in addition, the advantages of the systems of access to housing through a code, card, etc.

Tutorials videos now we are another step in the line of helping people with brain injury sequelae to live with greater autonomy and better quality of life. Therefore show architectural solutions, as for example the Elimination of distribution type spaces hall or corridors, the use of clear spaces of coexistence or the provision of bed toilet and shower in a straight line that can go with the help of a crane ceiling ”, underlines Quemada.

These solutions are designed for people who need a wheelchair to move around. In the kitchen, in the bathroom or in-room solutions deal with independent videos. Also shown are tecnolologías of control environment through various formats of computer for turning on lights, blinds, the computer (tablet).

These same computers can provide external Communicator for people without speaking ability. Each of these items is explained in a video of short duration, about two minutes on average.

Subsidies for food preparation, and cutlery and utensils adapted occupy one of the videos. Many people who have suffered a stroke have to handle with one hand and there are many products that can help them to complete activities of daily living alone.

Another group of audiovisual material shows how to move the patient to the bed, to transfer him from bed to chair, or Chair to the bathroom. These are procedures that need to be well learned to ensure the safety of both: patient and caregiver. They are also required to minimize the risk of injury.