Home Care for Parkinson's Disease

Physical & Occupational Therapy

Physical & Occupational Therapy

Home care traveling therapists will care for you in the comfort of your home! Physical Therapists maintain home safety and established an outstanding program for patients who have limited mobility, gait disturbances, limited ability to transfer, loss of range of motion, strength, muscle tone and muscloskeletal pain. Occupational Therapists help provide home care for patients with upper body weakness or trauma. They will assist and train patients with transfers, activities of daily living, and fine motor coordination.

Speech Therapy

Speech Therapists will provide rehabilitation for anyone suffering from parkinson's disease. As Parkinson's disease advances, you often experience difficulty swallowing. The choking on liquids that can occur with Parkinson disease can lead to aspiration pneumonia. Speech therapy assessments and interventions should also be used in these cases to maximize patient ability, teach alternative eating and drinking strategies, and prepare families to recognize the need for nutritional advice. Our highly trained speech therapists also will provide care if your diagnosed with hearing loss, dysphasia, dementia (Cognitive problems), aspiration pneumonia, language disorders and non-verbal communication. Speech and language changes in Parkinson's disease can negatively affect the social / emotional status of Parkinson's disease patients. When demonstrating these limitation in communication your physician should refer a for a speech therapy assessment: soft voice, monotone, breathiness, hoarse voice, imprecise articulation, or lessened facial expression. The prevelence of disorded communication among parkinson's disease patients has been measured as high as 89%, but some research suggests that less than 5% of PD patients receive speech treatment. People with parkinson's disease and their family rank the reduced ability to communicate among the most difficult aspects of the disease.

Home Care for Parkinson's Disease

By: Chris Zayid

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