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Rehabilitation Therapy and Wound Management: Strategic Partnership in Home Health

Relias

Rehabilitation therapists play an important role in the management of pressure injuries and other wounds in the home. The post Rehabilitation Therapy and Wound Management: Strategic Partnership in Home Health appeared first on Relias.

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Hidden from the world: Out of area hospital placements for people diagnosed with personality disorder #NoOOA

The Social Care Elf

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Metacognitive therapy for depressive symptoms in cardiac patients: new findings from the PATHWAY trial

The Social Care Elf

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Home Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs

Relias

Compliance Home Health Learning Occupational Therapy Post-Acute Care Quality Measures Rehabilitation Therapy Topics - PACThere’s a new opportunity for occupational therapists practicing in home health settings.

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Promoting Patient Engagement in Rehab Therapy: Strategies That Work

Relias

When it comes to rehabilitation therapy, patient commitment and effort are essential to good outcomes. Some patients may have low levels of health literacy, and others may experience cultural barriers that prevent them from fully participating in their rehabilitation.

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Care providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospitals

The Guardian

Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitation Care providers are demanding double the usual fees to look after thousands of people who need to be discharged from hospitals to ease the crisis in the NHS.

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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

Relias

Assisted Living & Senior Care Continuing Education Home Care Home Health Hospice & Palliative Care Learning Post-Acute Care Professional Development Rehabilitation Therapy Skilled Nursing & Long Term Care Turnover/Retention

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How to Choose an Inpatient Treatment Center

Gateway Foundation

Inpatient rehabilitation treatment (also called residential treatment) isn’t always required to overcome addiction. If you don’t have severe physical, mental or emotional challenges due to substance misuse, regular attendance at an outpatient program can help you reach recovery.

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£200m for NHS to buy short-term care placements to speed up discharge

Community Care

This will include investing in home care in Warwickshire, rehabilitation and reablement in Leeds and additional support for people with dementia in Greater Manchester.

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Risk of ‘poor or potentially illegal’ practice in care home discharge plan, warns ADASS

Community Care

However, Williams said the prospect of people ending up stuck in care homes was increased by staff shortages and a lack of NHS community services to aid rehabilitation. Rehabilitation can work in a residential setting but it needs to be in a focused unit with the right staffing.

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Social work and the un-justice system

Reimagining Social Work

Bex now works in a male prison, delivering rehabilitation programmes. This is a guest post from Bex Rillstone. Bex graduated the MSW(P) Programme, University of Auckland, in 2018. She has worked as a housing social worker in South Auckland and as a Family Start social worker with a kaupapa M?ori

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Care home discharge plan risks inappropriate placements and neglects causes of crisis – sector

Community Care

“There may not be enough money, but make a plan, provide some certainty to enable organisations to take on new staff, to invest in new facilities and to develop their in-house rehabilitative resources,” she added.

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Juvenile Justice Reform

Famcare

Few people outside the social work profession are aware that juvenile justice is administered on a state-by-state basis.

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Sharp rise in vacancies placing ‘significant stress’ on social care OTs, warns college

Community Care

“Last year we laid out a roadmap to solving the workforce crisis which included placing a greater focus on OTs and the contribution they can make to meeting the rehabilitation challenge and also in tackling delayed discharge.

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care.

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Forensic Social Work

Famcare

They may be employed across a wide variety of settings such as court systems, mental health agencies, rehabilitation centers, correctional facilities, hospitals, child and family agencies, prisons, and faith-based institutions.

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Ask An Expert: Janet (Rehab Chairperson)

Living Sober

Today's expert is Janet, an addictions counsellor and the Chairperson of the Higher Ground Drug Rehabilitation Trust. Mrs D: How did you get involved in working in the recovery sector? Janet: Through my own recovery journey.

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The Pandemic and Your Kids

Gary Direnfeld

Married and moved to Hamilton, I took a job at a hospital based brain injury rehabilitation program. I have developed and managed two brain injury rehabilitation programs, both lost owing to legislative changes to auto insurance. I am a late bloomer.

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Being Aware of the School-to-Prison Pipeline Many Minorities Fall Victim to

Children and the Law Blog

Rehabilitation efforts are key to addressing the school-to-prison pipeline. Resources are of the essence when it comes to these situations. Yet, there is a lack of these resources when it comes to the criminal justice system seeping into the educational environments.

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Bridging the gap – from hospital to home

Social Care

By focusing on nutrition, hydration and general health and well-being they enabled individuals to return home when they were fully rehabilitated. Hayley Robertshaw is a senior manager working in residential and nursing care in the north east of England.

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Why Doesn’t Punishment Stop Addiction?

Gateway Foundation

What Works Instead People with a drug addiction should be rehabilitated rather than punished. Addiction is a medical condition, not a character flaw. Yet, despite the research and overwhelming evidence in favor of this position, drug addiction continues to be stigmatized.

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Dealing with the Emotional Fallout of Physical Sports Injuries

Beautiful Voyager

My goal is to assist clients, using ACT, to cultivate the skills necessary to minimize the associated psychological effects on their physical rehabilitation and life. KEAGEN: I do mainly work with ACL injuries due to the nature and length of the rehabilitation process.

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Trina Shanks’ Editorial in Detroit Free Press Encourages Home Ownership in Detroit

Michigan Social Work

Shanks and her co-authors recommend new programs to support homebuyer education programs and establish a single-family residential rehabilitation fund. “We The conventional mortgage market is not working in Detroit, writes Professor Trina Shanks in a Detroit Free Press editorial.

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2021 NACSW 71st Annual Convention

The Advocate

NACSW’s Convention 2021 will offer inspirational keynote speakers such as Father Greg Boyle, Founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Social workers have roles in many levels of society – micro, mezzo, and macro. Today, we’ll describe what each of these levels encompass and specific jobs a social worker does.

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Violent offender treatment effectiveness: What we know and where to from here?

Society of Clinical Psychology

These people are often incarcerated or, for some who experience mental disorder, detained in secure hospitals for the purposes of incapacitation and rehabilitation. Rehabilitating serious violent adult offenders: an empirical and theoretical stocktake.

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Ideological Bias in Social Sciences and Implications for Clinical Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Dr. Nina Silander is a clinical rehabilitation psychologist practicing in the busiest rehabilitation hospital in the country, located in Jacksonville, FL.

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How Alcohol Affects Relationships  

Gateway Foundation

In addition to self-care, partners of those affected by alcohol addiction can intervene by helping them find rehabilitation services. While 12-step programs and inpatient rehabilitation are standard options, thanks to years of research, everyone can find a solution to help them reach sobriety.

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10 Tips for Staying Sober During the Summer  

Gateway Foundation

For over 50 years, Gateway Foundation has been helping clients achieve freedom from addiction through our drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs. Summertime, with its longer days and pleasant weather, usually means more outdoor events and parties.

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Apprenticeship power

Social Care

He started working at Cygnet St Augustine’s, a specialist high dependency inpatient rehabilitation for men in Staffordshire, several years ago as a Support Worker. “I

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Crime prevention starts with protecting children

Stop Abuse Campaign

Drug abuse and crime almost go hand in hand, yet we have still not made seeking rehabilitation an accessible process. ← Stop Abuse Campaign Advocate and Expert Joins Board Stop Abuse Campaign Issues Statement about Colorado Springs Club Q Shooting → Crime is a complex subject.

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Crime prevention starts with protecting children

Stop Abuse Campaign

Drug abuse and crime almost go hand in hand, yet we have still not made seeking rehabilitation an accessible process. ← Stop Abuse Campaign Advocate and Expert Joins Board. Crime is a complex subject.

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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

Relias

PEPPER is a yearly report given to hospices, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation centers, and other U.S.

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A Daughter's Dilemma

American Board of Clinical Social Work

She has been in and out of the hospital multiple times, close to death several times, and in rehabilitative and physical therapy services as well. Mami always told me, “when I’m no longer able to take care of myself, put me in a nursing home…my dignity is very important to me”. These words and personal preferences were shared, by my now 87 year-old Mother, close to twenty years ago. At the time, Mami was physically healthy, and her mind was clear and strong.

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He Died Waiting: A book with a purpose

Learning Social Worker

I joined a creative writing group as part of my rehabilitation and Tim’s story flooded onto the page. In this blog, I shall tell you about my book that I have written in the hope of changing hearts, minds, and practice. I am pretty excited about the prospect of seeing my first book in print.

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What to Expect From Virtual Addiction Treatment

Gateway Foundation

Our substance use disorder programs also include resources for your rehabilitation aftercare that starts the moment you complete your treatment plan, designed to help you maintain your progress and seek additional support if needed.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

Relias

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities. We all love free tools that help our organizations perform better. But there is a particular educational tool that tends to fall under the radar of many healthcare organizations.

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Untangling the threads: Using a stitched reflective journal to make sense of things.

Learning Social Worker

I love to write, and I wrote my book, He Died Waiting , as part of my rehabilitation, but I can only write for short periods.

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Threads of love: From He Died Waiting to They Died Waiting (and beyond)

Learning Social Worker

I started writing as part of my neuro-rehabilitation. It’s a year since He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health service was launched. In this blog, I shall reflect on a year of change and surprises.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US. Photo by ali elliott. In my long and unavoidable experience with mental illnesses, I at first felt hopeful.