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Home Rehabilitation
What Is Home Rehabilitation?
Home rehabilitation is collection of home therapy services. At Superior, these services are provided as a specialized form of home care. They include physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. In most cases, these services are supplied to a homebound patients in order to address issues of medical recovery, quality of life and home safety.
Home therapists may provide a variety of rehabilitation services. Physical therapy can provide improvements in walking, transfer skills and overall muscle strength. It can also speed recovery from joint replacement surgery. Occupational therapy can help with home safety, household skills, disability management and energy conservation. Speech therapy can help with swallowing, eating and communication skills following stroke or other neurological disturbance.
Is Home Rehabilitation Right for Me or My Loved One?
If you or your loved one is homebound and having difficulty performing daily household or personal care activities, home rehabilitation may be able to help. In particular, home rehabilitation can often address issues that reduce quality of life such as:
Further, being homebound often has a additional “catch-22" effect. It goes like this. The homebound individual may not get adequate exercise, proper nutrition, appropriate personal care or necessary treatment for declining health. This deficiency can produce further decline and prevent the person for getting needed help. Home rehabilitation is designed to end this by providing needed rehabilitation services to homebound individuals. Home rehabilitation can often help end the cycle of decline!
How Do I (or My Loved One) Qualify for Home Rehabilitation?
If you or your loved one is currently homebound and would benefit from rehabilitation services, we can help. (If you are homebound, you should only be leaving the house for doctors appointments or emergency medical care.) Under most insurance plans and Medicare, home rehabilitation services are recognized as a skilled medical need that qualifies for home care medical coverage. This need may initially be established by a doctor, but may also be determined by our staff during a home consultation.
As with other types of home care, once you or your loved one has been certified (qualified) for home rehabilitation, we can continue to provide care - along with other necessary home care services - for as long as rehabilitation is reaching therapeutic goals or another skilled medical need remains. The progress in rehabilitation and the need for skilled services will be reevaluated periodically during the course of treatment. When the rehabilitation progress plateaus, our staff will work with you prior to discharge to insure that you and your loved one continue to receive necessary care giver services even when nursing or therapy is no longer required. In every case, we will work with your doctor and make all the necessary calls in order to care for your needs in a timely manner.
These are all reasons to consider Superior Home Care & Hospice. Contact us today for a free, no-obligation, in-home nursing assessment. In Utah, dial 1-800-HOMECARE (1-800-466-3227), anywhere else dial 801-254-3200 or click here to use our on-line contact form. We can help.
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