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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing
AUGUST 28, 2023
As individuals and families plan for the future, one crucial consideration is the potential need for long-term care. Long-term care insurance has emerged as a valuable tool to ensure that individuals can access the care they need without depleting their savings.
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. Its also essential to revisit the conversation as the disease progresses, adjusting the level of information provided based on the persons cognitive and emotional state.
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CareAcademy Blog
MARCH 26, 2025
The number of options and information can be challenging to sift through, but theres no comparison to a care provider who offers comprehensive dementia care. One of the best things you can do to support your team is to provide them with the tools and information to plan ahead.
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
AUGUST 15, 2024
Real-life language use: The language used is informal, unplanned and often more varied, reflecting the person’s true communication abilities. 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.
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. Is the emergency contact information present and accessible? What about travel?
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
MARCH 14, 2024
Individualize the RFR to the specific patient’s circumstances rather than providing general information that could apply to multiple individuals. For long-term residents, incorporate a timeline of the functional decline or expected progression of the disease process to provide context for therapy interventions.
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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