Stereognosis involves using your tactile discrimination and touch perception skills to identify and recognize an object or group of objects with vision occluded; in other words stereognosis is when your fingers essentially “read” between the objects of different textures, temperatures, sizes, shapes, and weights and send information to your brain to figure out which of […]
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Social Isolation for our older adult patients is hard. Heck, it is hard for everyone. As we reflect on the past few years (and I am not just talking about COVID-19), there are so many stories about how isolation and social distancing have contributed to our patients’ loneliness and having difficult times with finding meaning in the days
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When you Google or Pinterest “nursing home activities” or “inpatient rehab games”, odds are that “playing bingo” will be on top of that list of activities – but how about Bingo for Fall Prevention Interventions? So how can we, as occupational therapy practitioners, modify and adapt this cherished game to meet the multiple needs of
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Using fall prevention techniques in occupational therapy is key when working on getting our patients back to their prior level of function and return home when they are in a skilled nursing (SNF) setting and integrating some of these strategies into our group treatments is a fun way to do group learning. As established in
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Fall recovery is an important skill to teach our occupational therapy patients. How many times have we seen the commercial and heard, “help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Many times for older adults, falling is not about if it happens but rather about when it happens. Per the CDC, more than one out
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We are digging into the who, what, when, where and why of stereognosis in occupational therapy and how to create a kit for your clinic. It is for the person WHO has ever experienced not being able to find their alarm clock on their bedside table in the dark of the morning. It is WHAT is
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Occupational Therapy and hospice care practitioners improve quality of life in patients by helping people engage in those meaningful occupations, even if it is at their end of life. Karmella Bognot MS, OTR/L shares her experience working in occupational therapy in oncology and palliative care people in a hospice setting and how our role as
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