ARTICLES AND EXPLANATIONS

It helps to be a wise consumer.   This information may help.

What is Rehabilitation?

…Improving Skills

…Maintaining skills

…Anticipating and preparing for the future

…Adapting to decline well:  even if you are in bed, there are ways to be more comfortable and make moving easier for everyone

What is In-Home Care?

• Do I qualify for a Home Health Agency? (and How Therapy In Your Home different than an agency or a clinic)
• Benefits of therapy at home
• What do I need to know about hiring caregivers at home?

Communicating with your family and health care team

• Questions that help clarify what a person knows about his condition
• When talking to your doctor
• Define common terms about goals of care
• Eight Stations of Late Life: a clarifying continuum?

Managing within the health care system

• Hope and Empowerment

Pediatric Services & your Child

• Pediatrics resource page

What is OT

• What is OT?
• Videos about OT