- THE HOME HEALTH MODEL
- Definitions
- Benefits and limitations
- Clientele
- Elderly
- Sufferers of debilitating physical or mental illness
- Military service members
- Differences from traditional therapy
- COGNITIVE DEFICITS
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Types of deficits
- Differentiations between cognition and executive function
- CREATING A PATIENT-CENTERED ENVIRONMENT
- Assessment
- Standardized evaluations
- Traditional
- Computer-based
- Clinical observation
- Key elements to survey
- Home evaluation
- Diagnosis
- Severity
- Critically thinking about the results of assessment and clinical observation
- Impacting factors
- Medication
- Pain
- Family dynamics
- Mental or behavioral health issues
- Treatment
- Patient-centered goals for the clinician and patient
- Strategies
- Home modification
- Home Cognitive Exercise Program
- High level therapy models
- Return to work or school
- Hobby-based
- EDUCATION
- Patient
- Family or support system
- Staff
- CASE STUDIES
o Rehearse application of the principles of patient-centered care
- Stroke
- Dementia
- Traumatic Brain Injury
o Practice all phases of patient-centered care
- Assessment/diagnosis
- Treatment
- Discharge