Once the person with stroke was in the hospital long enough to get out of the emergency phase is the time to think about rehabilitation. How do you decide where to go for the best rehabilitative care? If you must choose between a rehabilitation inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation, or rehabilitation performed at home, it happens that many caregivers opt for an in-patient rehabilitation. The post-discharge period is in fact quite stressful without having to deal with the added stress of carrying a patient with mobility problems from the house outpatient rehabilitation, a patient who may be very weak and therefore difficult to hold transfers repeated several times a week. In addition, this decision is conditioned by economic factors (Translator's note: in each case at the time of his resignation, before choosing and to choose your best, you need to talk carefully with the neurologist, a physiatrist, physical therapist and speech therapist to understand what is the margin recovery of the rehabilitation).
Once a professional photographer said that to get the best photos you just buy a better camera. More 'sophisticated and expensive lenses are, the better the pictures. But in the rehabilitation could not be easier. Who recommended may not be informed about what services are most effective, or you may be referred to rehabilitation services with respect to which operators have personal interests. It is important that you make many inquiries to find out where and who to contact and what financial hedges are available.
(...) The first factor in the selection process is your home and the resources available in the surrounding area. In your area there may be no resource. (...) Continue to ask questions. Many people have had similar experiences or know someone who is already past. Start talking to you first and will come back a lot of information. The first recipients of your questions should still be the world's health workers and then the medical, nursing and rehabilitation. Ask to any doctor, nurse or therapist, no matter its course: "If I had had a stroke, where do you want to be sent to rehabilitation?" You'll get tips maybe even like "Any place but not that ... we do not ever bring anyone."
send your child to a school you've never visited? Buying a house chosen from a booklet? Personal visits to the rehabilitation service are an absolute necessity. Will be able to make observations in the first person is clean? There are doctors on site? How can visit patients? What happens in case of medical emergency? Remember that first and foremost a rehabilitation service to meet the medical needs of the patient. How many stroke patients are admitted to this facility? What kind of rehabilitation offers this service? The staff is qualified? How many hours are devoted to therapy? What do the patients in the rest of the day? What percentage of patients from that place is institutionalized and those who are returning home? Is there a TV? If this detail is important to ask your family! You might think it's that important, but those who live in the condition of aphasia may benefit from the familiarity due to certain entertainment typical of life than before. Moreover, the presence of recreational activities at a service is a good indicator of comfort that the very structure chooses provide their patients. Certainly not looking for an exclusive club but your goal is to find a place where your family is not treated with a packet of rice on a shelf. Take note the average age of patients admitted. If your family does not even have 50 years a place full of octogenarians will not be the most suitable environment.
There is much to say with respect to geographical convenience of the facility's location you choose. If the visits are crucial to your family, try not to send them away from their natural environment. Driving in traffic might not be a problem for you but for other people ', especially for older people for which it may be difficult to achieve your family. Certainly, however, the main aspect in your decision is the quality of service offered by the hotel. ... If so you might miss out on visitors.
However, unless a rehabilitation service is completely incompetent (in that case is unlikely to have the certification requirements of quality) can be relatively certain that it would nonetheless provide a basis for therapeutic treatment but probably you'll have to work a little ' more and you will not be allowed to rest comfortably. Try to be present often or request a friend or relative to share your commitment to control the quality of treatment ... for more, who knows? Maybe a therapist of great talent and understanding is located in the most unlikely. (...) Also remember that recovery from stroke is only partly due to the therapy. Although not documented in detail, a large percentage of the recovery happens in every way, as some pathways of the brain begin to rebuild itself in a slow natural process. Remember what we said, no two identical paths to recovery from stroke. And also remember that the best therapy in the world is usually not enough to help most people recover completely ......... as well as the most mediocre of treatment will not prevent the recovery and this can not be estimate until the time is not past ...... sometimes it is months, sometimes years, until such time as the recovery becomes more evident.
But what makes a rehabilitation service good service? (...) In America there are organizations that certify the rehabilitation activities (Translator's note in Italy we are still at the stage of certification of health activities and the scope of rehabilitation work hours often in the almost total absence of quality controls).
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