Expand Your Practice to Community Health
What if the care your practice provides extended beyond the clinic to your patient's home? What if medical intervention was complemented by fall prevention, pain management, ensuring medication compliance, in-home rehabilitation, task training, home safety? What if you could offer this with no additional overhead cost?
Clinic - Then Carry-over
Chronic Disease Management - A Team Effort
You prescribe medications. Recommend at least eight hours of sleep a night. Provide education on a heart-healthy diet, the importance of monitoring sugar levels, the impact of hydration on kidney health. You advise light exercise five days a week and minimizing alcohol intake. What happens next?
The role of occupational therapy in the home has evolved, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to ensuring home safety after a hospital admission, therapists have taken on the role of ensuring individuals comply with the recommendations of primary care providers and specialists even in the absence of an acute injury.
- Is poor medication compliance due to a lack of motivation or a lack of transportation?
- Poor diet and/or sedentary behaviors suggest the need for training in habit change.
- Fall risk often reflects a complex interplay of client factors and environmental hazards.
- The late effect of a stroke that occurred 10 years ago may only now start to impact one's ability to get dressed or take a shower.
Integrative Aging In Place addresses and helps solve these and other challenges to support individuals managing chronic conditions and adhere to their provider's recommendations. Services are covered by Medicare Part B and most supplemental insurance plans.
