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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
MARCH 13, 2025
While this story is a lighthearted example, it highlights a deeper issue faced by caregivers and healthcare professionals working with individuals with dementia: the delicate balance between respecting a persons emotional state and ensuring their safety and well-being. More like “awesomely clueless,” I thought. Have a column idea?
CareAcademy Blog
MARCH 26, 2025
In fact, it can increase word-of-mouth recommendations in your community and across healthcare referral sources. Support activities of daily living (or ADLs): Clients living with dementia need the same types of support that other clients do, but they may need activities to be adapted to their level of ability and understanding.
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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?”
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?
GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?
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