The government is supposed to pay for a motor-driven chair only if the patient would be confined to bed without one.

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One good example: the 330, 000 Americans who are confined to bed or unable to talk as a result of severe dementia, such as that caused by Alzheimer's disease.

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When confined to his bed, Matisse would sketch on the ceiling by attaching brushes and charcoal to a long pole.

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She was also depressed, confined to her bed for the most part of five decades.

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Daniel Ellis, Jason Niblett and Scott Sunderland's win in the men's team sprint came two days after lead sprinter Daniel Ellis was confined to his bed with a stomach virus.

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He was confined to a bed in the living room and was in pain, but had expressed no desire to die or to have anyone help him end his life, the jury heard.

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He made a point of explaining his uncharacteristic absence from the scene until five days after the crash, saying he had been sick and confined to a hospital bed for 11 days.

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