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| Jayme Cooper, therapy manager at Good Samaritan Society, helps rehab patients readjust to getting inward together with out of their car. Photo yesteryear Melissa Donald |
Today's Transitions is recognizing local services together with communities whose innovative ideas are improving the lineament of life for seniors together with caregivers. Read virtually i of our four Today's Transitions Innovation Award winners who won inward the Innovative Structural Design category.
WINNER: The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, Jeffersontown
Innovation: Occupational Therapy Mimics Home
Type: Nursing/Rehab
Size: 76 residents (skilled care); 22 (post-acute rehab)
Good Samaritan Society gives rehab patients a security surround for easing themselves dorsum into their daily tasks. Its post-acute centre provides an entire living expanse designed to aid patients find the independence they demand earlier returning home. The center’s therapy gym has multiple outdoor walking surfaces for learning to suit to walking on brick, gravel, grass, together with sloped areas. Good Samaritan has an indoor garage for rehab patients. “They tin ship away convey their ain vehicle from domicile together with hence they tin ship away larn to become far together with out of their vehicle postal service surgery,” says Bill Shoulta, manager of community relations at Good Samaritan Society — Jeffersontown. The gym’s bath too includes a standardized tub, watch bars, together with a bench for patients who mightiness demand extra aid stepping into the tub. Instead of staying inward their room, patients tin ship away prepare meals inward the fully operational kitchen. “They tin ship away acquire their ain snacks. So it’s non similar they select to force a push to acquire waited on. The whole concept is to aid them prepare a feel of self sufficiency,” Shoulta says.
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