David Benthall, OT, Desk Woodworking Project proudly Veterans. Benthall supported with good lighting and visual aids adaptation required for the project.
By Hans Petersen
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Here's another positive Teams healthcare VA's care for a particular group of veterans. VA and occupational therapists are the most important members of this team.
It is the primary home care (HBPC) is a program of healthcare VA for veterans in their homes, the complex needs of veterans health care for routine clinical care that are not effective.
The HBPC team at the Durham VA Medical Center in North Carolina include doctor / nurse practitioner assistant, a social worker, team physical / occupational therapy, pharmacists, nutritionists, psychologists and access to chaplaincy.
April is the month of therapy work
April is the month of the therapy to work, the opportunity to learn more about this important profession, helps things veterans through life they want to do and to do the life to the fullest.
Occupational therapists focus on "doing" to help using the professions and activities meaningful life people maximize their potential.
Today, the comprehensive basic service requires a coordinated team approach, participatory decision support, support of patients and their families, activities and quality improvement.
Unlike services reimbursed by other funding mechanisms, such as Medicare, HBPC provides comprehensive patient care often for the rest of their lives.
HBPC weak targets, old veterans with chronic diseases that require interdisciplinary teams of health care to meet continuity, coordination of care and the integration of various services of their complex social, medical rehabilitation needs, and needs care behavior.
So treat complex health problems of chronic or terminally ill patients HBPC is provided by an interdisciplinary team.
This team promotes cooperation and coordination between all team members. Team members work interdependently HBPC in the evaluation, planning, problem solving and decision making, to meet the complex needs of veterans.
The role of occupational therapy
The use of occupational therapy in primary care in the home based Durham VA Medical Center is a non-traditional approach to the use of occupational therapy with an emphasis on proactive prevention, education and welfare. This is in contrast to conventional therapy services house with a short-term rehabilitation or development of restoration.
help occupational therapists, the team by conducting initial and ongoing assessment of functional status of the veteran in the home environment. This allows them to customers and monitor support while they move through the natural aging process and the end of life.
Jim Mathues, OT, coordinating a project of Home Depot grant access to the home of veterans to improve, simply had to live in the basement of his house, because of environmental barriers, but now you can use the terrace on the stage enjoy with the expansion of the door and the installation of ramp.
Occupational therapists also evaluate the home of veteran safety and structural changes necessary requires secure and accessible environment, including adaptive equipment.
Occupational therapists maximize performance and safety in the home environment, which remain the target supports the veterans in their home during the aging process.
important interventions
Other important measures include support for the change in lifestyle, to minimize the impact of chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and dementia. They focus on safety and preventing falls in the home environment.
There are many other invisible tasks that include many important details, such as education of veterans and their families access to the resources of the VA or community to help including grants, change your house and car for accessibility to repair resource housing and Community transport.
As the largest health care system in the nation, VA is the largest employer occupational therapists whose main objective is to veterans in areas optimize helping their functional performance that have a meaning in life.
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