What are the research challenges?

1. Comprehensiveness and confidentiality

• Gathering sufficiently detailed information to understand the impact, and
• Protecting the privacy of the clients served

2. Defining success

• An individual definition
• Based on past experiences and expectations



• A collective definition
• Based on the overall experiences of the group

3. Replication analysis

• Determining what is unique to the participants
• Determining what is unique to the Knoxville/East Tennessee area
• Determining the essential components of the program
• Describing the hard lessons learned gently

4. Dissemination

• Conference presentations - technology
• Conference presentations - community
• Journal articles - various disabilities
• Nursing/caregiver resources
• International exposure - "appropriate technologies"