By NovaLeigh Dodge-Krupa, PT, and Aimee E. Perron, PT, DPT, NCS
Enhancing older adults’ physical strength and endurance increases the potential for individuals to retain physical function and live independently.
Physical therapists can influence elders’ overall health and wellness by providing services that positively impact physical fitness. Such services include interventions that affect cardiovascular/pulmonary endurance; muscle strength, power, endurance, and flexibility; relaxation; and body composition. Older adults’ tendency to become more sedentary creates a challenge; it increases the risk of their losing functional ability, as well as their functional independence.
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Free Online Resource from the Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Illinois Chapter
The Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Illinois Chapter is pleased to offer a free online resource, Encouraging Comfort Care: A Guide for Families of People with Dementia Living in Care Facilities. This 21-page booklet provides useful information to families and staff of long-term care facilities about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, particularly care issues related to the late and final stages.
For families, this guide will enable them to make informed choices about a variety of medical decisions they may face on behalf of loved ones with dementia living in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other types of care facilities. It will also equip families to ask good questions aimed at obtaining the best care for their loved ones, including a handy checklist of comfort care measures to be discussed with staff members of care facilities.
For staff members of long-term care facilities, the guide will serve as an important tool for those who wish to educate families and assist them in care planning. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to disseminate this booklet in electronic and print formats.
To view and download the free guide, click here: http://www.alzheimers-illinois.org/pti/comfort_care_guide.asp
Encouraging Comfort Care was made possible through a generous grant from the Retirement Research Foundation.
For families, this guide will enable them to make informed choices about a variety of medical decisions they may face on behalf of loved ones with dementia living in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other types of care facilities. It will also equip families to ask good questions aimed at obtaining the best care for their loved ones, including a handy checklist of comfort care measures to be discussed with staff members of care facilities.
For staff members of long-term care facilities, the guide will serve as an important tool for those who wish to educate families and assist them in care planning. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to disseminate this booklet in electronic and print formats.
To view and download the free guide, click here: http://www.alzheimers-illinois.org/pti/comfort_care_guide.asp
Encouraging Comfort Care was made possible through a generous grant from the Retirement Research Foundation.
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