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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
MARCH 13, 2025
Occupational therapy Occupational therapists focus on improving the persons ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs), such as dressing, cooking and bathing. The opinions expressed in McKnights Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the authors and are not necessarily those of McKnights Long-Term Care News or its editors.
CareAcademy Blog
MARCH 26, 2025
Based on key themes and trends in the long-term care industry, this list of strategies can help you become the provider of choice for dementia clients: Understand dementia progression: There is no single or linear path for dementia.
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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
JUNE 20, 2024
Occupational therapy can employ abilities-based pacing during verbal communication to improve independence in self-care ADLs. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
AUGUST 15, 2024
Relational over task-based interactions : When staff approach residents with the mindset of “visiting” rather than simply fulfilling duties, such as ADLs, the tone of interaction shifts. Finally, we all should appreciate the cognitive and emotional benefits of such an approach for our residents and our care teams. Have a column idea?
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Home assessments should move well beyond home type, kitchen set-up, hallway width, bedroom and ADL analysis and shift into our patients’ “real world” in whatever sense neighborhoods and community are important to them. Taking our clinical practice beyond, “Are you safe for home?” to “Are you safe for return to your fully integrated community?”
Boca Home Care Services
MAY 30, 2022
Besides an aging care manager, a home health aide can assist in your parent’s home, based on their best schedule, typically four hours a day. There are also ways to pay for this that many do not know about: long-term care insurance, Claims Conference-Holocaust reparations (claimscon.org), the VA, and Medicaid waivers.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
MARCH 14, 2024
” Occupational Therapy (OT) “Patient, a long-term care (LTC) resident of the SNF, referred to OT by nursing due to recent decline in activities of daily living (ADLs). Rehabilitation is sought to increase strength and improve transfers/gait for the patient to return home with spouse.” Have a column idea?
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