Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT, Pet Therapy)
- A non-pharmacological therapeutic approach in which interaction with animals — typically dogs, cats, or horses — is used to support physical, cognitive, social, or emotional health goals. Evidence sug…
- Audiogram (Hearing Test Chart, Pure-tone Audiogram)
- An audiogram is a graph of a person's hearing thresholds measured across a range of frequencies — typically 250 Hz to 8 kHz — plotted separately for each ear. Thresholds are expressed in decibels hear…
- Biopsychosocial Model (BPS Model)
- The biopsychosocial model is a holistic framework for understanding health and disability that considers the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in a person's experience. In con…
- Care Partner (Care Dyad, Caregiving Relationship)
- A term encompassing both the person providing care (caregiver) and the person receiving care (care receiver), emphasizing the collaborative and reciprocal nature of care relationships rather than a on…
- Care Staff (Care Worker, Direct Care Worker, Personal Care Aide, Care Assistant)
- Individuals who provide day-to-day personal care and support to residents in care facilities, including assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and mobility. Care staff are distinct from…
- Caregiver (Family Caregiver, Informal Caregiver, Carer)
- A person who provides unpaid assistance with daily activities, emotional support, and care coordination for a family member, friend, or neighbor who has a disability, chronic illness, or age-related n…
- Caregiver Burden (Carer Burden, Caregiver Stress)
- Caregiver burden refers to the physical, emotional, social, and financial strain experienced by individuals who provide ongoing care to a family member or partner with a disability, chronic illness, o…
- Clinical Reasoning (CR)
- The cognitive and reflective process by which healthcare clinicians — particularly physical and occupational therapists — individualize care under patient and contextual uncertainty. Clinical reasonin…
- Clock Drawing Test (CDT)
- The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a brief cognitive screening task in which a person is asked to draw a clock face, place the numbers, and set the hands to a specified time (commonly "ten past eleven").…
- Community Care (Community-Based Care, Care in the Community)
- A policy and practice model in which health and social care services are provided to disabled and elderly people in their own homes or local communities rather than in residential institutions. Commun…
- Community Health Worker (CHW, Lay Health Worker)
- A frontline healthcare provider who is a trusted member of the community they serve and who delivers basic health services, education, and referrals, typically with limited formal training. Community …
- Digital Health (eHealth, Digital Health Intervention)
- The use of digital technologies — including mobile apps, social media platforms, wearables, telemedicine, and AI tools — to deliver, coordinate, or support healthcare services and health information. …
- Formal Caregiver (Professional Caregiver, Paid Caregiver)
- A formal caregiver is a paid, trained professional who provides care — personal, medical, or social — to a disabled, ill, or ageing person, typically through a healthcare organisation, home-care agenc…
- Games for Health (Health Games, Therapeutic Games, Medical Games)
- Digital games designed to promote health outcomes, deliver therapy, support rehabilitation, or encourage healthy behaviors. Unlike entertainment games, games for health have specific therapeutic or he…
- Illness Narrative (Disease Narrative)
- An illness narrative is the story a person and their significant others construct to give coherence to the disruptive experience of illness or diagnosis and its effects on the family system. In the co…
- Implementation Science
- The study of methods and strategies that promote the systematic uptake of research findings and evidence-based practices into routine clinical, educational, or service settings. Implementation science…
- Manual Muscle Testing (MMT, Muscle Strength Testing)
- Manual muscle testing (MMT) is a clinical assessment technique used by occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and other healthcare professionals to evaluate the strength of individual muscles or m…
- Medical Making (Clinical Making)
- The practice of clinicians — particularly occupational therapists, physical therapists, and physicians — creating custom assistive devices for their patients using digital fabrication tools such as 3D…
- Non-Pharmacological Intervention (NPI, Non-Drug Intervention)
- A non-pharmacological intervention (NPI) is any therapeutic approach delivered without medication, including art and music therapy, reminiscence work, cognitive stimulation, exercise programmes, anima…
- Occupational Therapist (OT, Occupational Therapy)
- An occupational therapist is a licensed healthcare professional who helps people participate in the 'occupations' of daily life — self-care, work, school, leisure, and community roles — through therap…