Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Journey
Taking care of someone with Alzheimer’s and Dementia can be intensely emotional and stressful. As your loved one’s cognitive, physical, and functional abilities diminish, specialized care definition it starts affecting their memory, thinking, and daily life. As the disease advances, your loved one’s needs will increase and it is your caregiving that can make the biggest difference in their quality of life. Prepare for the road ahead and develop a personal support plan. Ask for help and make use of available resources.
Hire someone to provide assistance depending upon your needs to avoid attendant burnout.
Offers a variety of activities and socialization opportunities that specialize in dementia care.
Gives time off to the caregiver to rest, travel, etc. occasionally or on an ongoing basis to relieve attendant stress, anxiety, and exhaustion.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities of everyday life. At OP Health, Specialized care definition our Occupational Therapist works with seniors in different settings such as assisted living facilities, nursing homes, adult daycare, and individual’s homes and encourage safe working practices and focuses on the physical and mental well being of the client.
Physiotherapy
Our ability to move gets restricted as we age, which can be due to various reasons. Specialized care definition Our compassionate forward-thinking physiotherapists who excel at assessing patient’s strengths and weaknesses can devise a creative but effective treatment plan to help improve their mobility, alleviate pain, restore fitness and help them make their day-to-day activities easier.
Social Work
At OP Health, our social workers are experts at meeting the biopsychosocial needs of older adults. Part of their job is connecting them with community resources. They assess the client’s functional capacity and help individuals and their families meet their needs and find solutions that address the personal, social, and environmental challenges that come with aging.
Our goal is to maintain and enhance the quality of life of your loved one keeping in mind the physical and mental health challenges of aging alongside social, cultural, environmental and organizational obstacles faced by older adults.
Dietitian
Nutrition plays a significant role in many major health issues such as high cholesterol and heart disease, diabetes, as well as food allergies and intolerance; to name a few.
OP Health Registered Dietitians provide individualized nutrition assessments and work with clients toward development of a treatment plan, including diet programs, meal ideas and recommendations on nutritional supplements, as well as nutrition counselling.
Pediatric Care
At OP Health, we provide high quality, compassionate, skilled care for your medically fragile child. We value your child’s well-being and are guided by our ethical and moral standards in every detail of our business. We demonstrate this through our continual, transparent communication with the families of our patients.
Speech Therapist
Our speech therapists are passionate about social and biological science, language, and human anatomy. They assess diagnosis and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults. They liaise with families and physicians to design an effective treatment plan using tried and tested therapies in combination with new innovative techniques and use available resources to find solutions