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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?
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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?”
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?
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.
Comfort Home Care
MARCH 29, 2022
Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Cost-effective: In most cases, in-home care is more cost-effective than other forms of long-term care.
Comfort Home Care
MAY 5, 2023
These conditions affect their quality of life and their willingness and/or ability to perform the activities of daily living (ADLs). Medical Services and Senior Home Care in Rockville, MD Good medical services, housing, and long-term care are vital for seniors’ mental health.
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