How A Walk In Bathtub Can Enhance Your Work With Your Physical Therapy Patients As a physical therapist, you are always looking for ways to enhance the benefits of your work with your patients. Did you realize that walk in bathtubs can support the work you are doing? Here are some of the reasons for…
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Potentials of a Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy
Two areas of physical therapy are Geriatric physical therapy and Neurological physical therapy. Geriatrics focus on the conditions that affect many people as they grow older - arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, hip and joint replacement, balance disorders, incontinence, Parkinson's and more. Neurological PT focus on individuals who have a neurological disorder or disease -…
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Geriatric Massage – Physical and Emotional Well Being For the Elderly
by John Barett Geriatric massage, which utilizes the same basic techniques as traditional massage therapy, was especially designed for the elderly and their unique needs. This type of massage includes the gentle massage of soft tissues (and sometimes passive or active manipulation of the joints), proven to improve circulation and increase flexibility. Massage therapy for…
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Geriatric Massage: Physical and Emotional Well Being for the Elderly
By Bobby Wise Geriatric massage, which utilizes the same basic techniques as traditional massage therapy, was especially designed for the elderly and their unique needs. This type of massage includes the gentle massage of soft tissues (and sometimes passive or active manipulation of the joints), proven to improve circulation and increase flexibility. Geriatric massage therapy…
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Assisted Living Providers Add Solutions for Hospital Referrals
By Carol Marak Assisted Living Providers Add Solutions for Hospital Referrals What’s the fastest way assisted living facilities increase occupancy? If you guessed hospital patients, you’re right! Several senior living companies, big ones like Brookdale Senior Living and non-profit ones like Eskaton look to growing their post-acute care services. They have strategies in place that…
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Caring for the Elderly
by Alyx Braze Something most of us will have to deal with at some point in our life is caring for an elderly person and you can lighten the stress of it by knowing what to do. Often times someone’s health can go slowly and their family will have time to figure out what needs…
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Encourage Our Elderly Parents to Exercise In Winter for "Snow" Many Good Reasons
For kids in snow country, there's such a fun thrill to open the door and spot the crisp whiteness all around. They love to throw snow balls, slide down hills, and build snowmen. Great exercise all around. But for our beloved seniors, getting exercise in the chill of winter, even without snow, is a bit…
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It's Definitely a Good Idea to Stay at the Hospital With Your Senior Parents
By Kaye Swain One of the many issues the Sandwich Generation often has to deal with, when caring for the elderly parents or other relatives in their family, is surgery. While many surgeries are done "out-patient," and the patient gets to go home the same day, there are plenty that require a hospital stay of…
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5 Ways to Care for Your Loved One After a Stroke
--Philip J Reed, Valley Hospital Medical Center Watching a loved one, particularly an elderly person, recover from a stroke can be a frightening and frustrating time for everyone involved. Their primary stroke center will offer all of the care needed while in hospital, but what about afterwards? It can seem overwhelming to care for someone…
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Senior Services: Top Five Alerts When Looking for Eldercare
In one way or another, we will all go through life and end up as senior citizens (that is if life cooperates with us). It is unavoidable, an oblique stage of life that can never be tilted back. Our friends will go through it, drinking buddies, tennis partners, and of course even our parents. Eventually…
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