For example, pilot testing of a self-management intervention with face-to-face and telephone contact (the Taking Charge intervention [ 20]) showed beneficial effects on dealing with post-treatment concerns.
Thing Seven And One Half: Happy Birthday, Telephone: On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received history's first official patent for the telephone, taking the first step on the long road toward the fulfillment of Bell's lifelong dream that, one day, people of the future would be able to send each other pictures of their junk.
Shawn and the Waller family keep in touch throughout the year, calling one another on the telephone, taking in New York Knicks games or getting together for holiday dinners.
Study participants rated their ability to carry out ADL (e.g. dressing, bathing, using the toilet, stairs climbing) and IADL (meal preparation, housekeeping, shopping, use the telephone, taking their medications) with or without aid on a 3-point scale ranging from "able to do without difficulty" to "not able at all".
A local photographer, standing in the basket of a cherry picker borrowed from the local telephone company, took the photograph, the one that won the Pulitzer Prize.
To enhance the credibility of the results, research assistants AS and GB joined the telephone interviews, taking notes and posing additional questions when needed.
Domains comprise using the telephone, taking medications, managing money, getting to places beyond walking distance, preparing meals, grocery shopping, doing housework or handyman work, and doing laundry.
Mr. Hentschel operated the air, water and lights, Mr. Misch the telephones, taking charge of the switchboard that connected Hitler to his men outside.
But Mr. McCain also frequently irked the telephone industry by taking the side of consumer advocates, including trying to end the "universal service" fees the phone companies tack onto consumers' bills.
In May 1877 the first commercial application of the telephone took place with the installation of telephones in offices of customers of the E.T. Holmes burglar alarm company.
