Episode Eighteen | Changing What’s Possible: The Disability Innovation Podcast | Season Three

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Fri 25 Oct 2024

Changing What’s Possible: The Disability Innovation Podcast | Season Three

About 18 million people worldwide have cerebral palsy (CP). CP’s impacts span a person’s whole lifetime and will likely change with age. Thankfully, more recent research has been aimed at better understanding important issues related to managing CP throughout adulthood. This Research Roundup with Dr. Marie McNeely features three new research papers in this area. 

They examine important factors for people with more involved CP to consider when transitioning from assisted to independent living, functional decline in adults with CP living in the community, and dealing with and managing falls. Jocelyn Cohen, CPARF’s Vice President of Education also joined the conversation to share why these new studies matter for people with CP. 

The studies featured in this episode weren’t funded by CPARF, but they represent other interesting, innovative work that scientists are doing in the CP research space. 

Links to the abstracts of the studies featured in this episode:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38591970/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38433033/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38994847/

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