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Stroke Rehabilitation: Are you getting enough?
Recent studies show that on average people receive less than 60 minutes of rehabilitation a day in inpatient care following a stroke. Is this enough? We still don’t know exactly how much is enough, but we do know that people who receive more therapy, earlier, tend to have more positive outcomes and less dependency.
One solution to providing more therapy is to look more closely at delivery of stroke care services in the community. Comparatively inexpensive, and in some instances, better placed to facilitate early discharge from costly inpatient rehabilitation services, community stroke rehabilitation programs provide an alternative for patients with mild to moderate strokes.
People who live at home early post stroke generally need to do more for themselves and can be in ‘training’ the better part of twelve hours going about their daily activities. Rates of dependency, quality of life, readmission and overall service satisfaction have all shown reported improvements in an early supported discharge style program. In addition, the incidence of depression is reported to be lower in people receiving early supported discharge compared to those in traditional inpatient rehabilitation.
The Advance Rehab Centre Intensive Stroke Program offers up to five hours per day of formal and supervised rehabilitation, delivered in the community by a multidisciplinary team. This rehabilitation solution following stroke can be offered as an early supported discharge option as well as a ‘top up’ for those who have been living at home for a while.
If you or someone you know would benefit from intensive stroke therapy, delivered at home or at our centre, please consider our Intensive Stroke Program for its ability to provide early supported discharge, intensive therapy and a positive stroke rehabilitation opportunities. For more info call the office or sign up for our e-news now at www.archealth.com.au
Categories: Feature Article, Stroke recovery, Home based rehabilitation
Reader Comments
2 comments
Intensive rehabilitation live-in
From: Pauline tew, 13/03/12
My husband had a severe stroke 2years ago, prognoses was not good however my daughter and I did not agree an with all of our strength of character we have him eating walking talking reading and enjoying life, an electrical device helps him walk. He has a short term memory and we have taught him the use of a diary which is his bible every day. We know he has his planning brain as he would not be able to do tasks he does if he had not. We have done all we can, is there live-in intensive courses in Australia that we can pay to attend who can work with him on the planning Sid of his brain. Thank you for your adsistance
Further info on your clinics
From: Louise farrell, 09/09/11
Please could you forward me further details on your rehabilitation centres. Details on where you have centres etc. My uncle had a stroke approx two weeks and is still in hospital. We are currently trying to organise the best rehabilitation care for him. Thank you for your help. I would be grateful if you could email me back as soon as possible..