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Rehabilitation Program Development: 

 

By far, the On-Site Workshop is the most effective method of delivering customized rehabilitation programs for any rehabilitation organization. The settings which experience the greatest outcomes from specialized rehabilitation programs are skilled nursing, assisted living, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and home health care organizations. Specific rehabilitation programs are optimized in the following organizations:

Cancer Rehabilitation offered by hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and community fitness organizations (LAF/YMCA).

The Transformation of Cancer from Death Sentence to Chronic Disease

Rehabilitation Systems Comments: Cancer treatments with increasing survivability rates have shifted cancer into the chronic disease category. This significant change is both a relief to one diagnosed with cancer and a challenge to the restorative professionals taking front and center positions to coach, support and motivate cancer survivors as they travel the restoration pathway to increased quality of life. Now is the time to leverage every caring hand in the quest for functional and social independence from cancer.

 

Cancer Rehabilitation: An Expanding Need

Deborah Julie Franklin, PhD,MD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine Thomas Jefferson University

Cancer Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation Systems Comments: In addition to the following professionals listed below as cancer rehabilitation experts, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Cancer Society,  recently established an industry first, accredited cancer speciality certification. Thus, establishing a national and international credentialing pathway for rehabilitation professionals to increase standards of care and produce increased access to restorative cancer care services.

SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION:

Pulmonary Rehabilitation via Telemedicine

There can be no misunderstanding that telemedicine will play an increasing roll in rehabilitation for one reason alone, to increase access to care. However, with our aging population who officially enter the Medicare system in 2011, the cost of doing business as usual will simply be a matter of addition and subtraction makeing the case for telemedicine. That is, the addition of 78 million citizens accessing medicare between 2011 and 2029 and the subtraction of declining resources by an ageing population makes outcomes clear. According to the Institute of Medicine, we need three significant adjustment as we serve the senior population in the next two or three decades.

Telemedicine applications for Home Health Care

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Telemedicine applications for home health care

Ilene Warner

Home health care in the USA is one of the most rapidly growing segments of the health-care market. Telehealth seeks to reduce some of the inefficiencies of home health care in various ways, including replacing certain nursing visits with video visits, collecting vital-signs data remotely, improving medication compliance and patient education. The use of telehealth in home health-care settings will provide a means of interacting in a client-centered manner, promoting client autonomy through education and improved communications.

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