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Home Health Care Agencies in the Northwest Indiana Area

Many home health care agencies also offer non–medical caregiver services, such as private duty care, home care aides, live–in assistance, companionship, light housekeeping, and cooking.

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Home Modification Contractors, Vendors and Funding

This listing of home modification resources supplies business contractors, vendors and certified aging in place specialists CAPS to assist in your changing home environment needs, including home financial options for people in Chicago.

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Home Personal Assistance Resources

This listing of Illinois resources is to help people with disabilities and those over 60 find assistance at home with the daily activities that they could use assistance with such as meal preparation, laundry, cleaning, and light chores. Some of the resources offer financial assistance or reduced rates to accommodate the financial constraints that are often a consideration.

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Hospice and Palliative Care

This listing provides a description of hospice and palliative care and the services it provides families while providing national and local Chicagoland facilities focusing on the care for individuals dealing with complex and end of life issues.

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Housing and Food Assistance

These resources are to assist people who are homeless, in transition, looking for a home, in need of food assistance and have limited or no funds to do so, and need assistance in gaining hope again with others help in learning a trade and having a place to live.

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Intimacy, Fertility, Sexual Relations, and Pregnancy With a Disability

These listing resources are supported by health care professionals to enable people to have healthy social intimacy and fertility with their partners.

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Legal Firms

This listing of legal firms is to assist in all areas of access, housing rights, and disputes for people with a disability in Chicago and neighboring areas including organizations such as Access Living and Equip for Equality that advocate for civil rights of all.

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Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago

Access Living is one of the leading independent living centers in the country and is located in Chicago, Illinois. It is a nonresidential advocacy center for people in Chicago with all types of disabilities. It expands services to include self advocacy, housing discrimination and domestic violence issues.

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Acute Flaccid Myelitis AFM

AFM is a rare and serious disease that affects the spinal cord; the part of the nervous system that carries messages from the brain to the body, and causes the muscles and reflexes in the body to weaken. AFM is a polio-like neurologic disease.

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Adjusting to an Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital

Rehabilitation services are delivered by a multidisciplinary treatment team. This means that you will have contact with a number of rehabilitation professionals during your stay.
All medical care is coordinated by an attending physiatrist (doctor specializing in rehabilitation medicine).

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