Aging In Place: The Role of The Rehabilitation Therapist
Tracking # 20-764525
Course overview
Many older adults want to live in their homes and their communities for as long as possible. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy professionals working in rehabilitation settings,collectively referred to in this course as "rehabilitation therapists", play a critical role in empowering and facilitating older adult clients to make lifestyle modifications in order to age-in-place. This course provides rehabilitation therapists with an understanding of how to collaborate with older adults to achieve "aging in place". Topics include common challenges faced by older adults (physical, cognitive, environmental) and the role of the rehabilitation therapists as a "connector" to the right interventions and resources to optimize aging in place.
Subject areas
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