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| What is rehabilitation about?
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Sometimes after sudden illness or injury people find themselves needing help
to manage at home, or even having to consider going into permanent residential
or nursing home care.
These will be the right choices for many, but many social
services and PCT's offer a number of short-term services, either in your
home, in a day centre, or in "special" residential care settings, which involve
active programmes of rehabilitation to help you regain your independence.
Equally some people in residential and nursing home care may decide they are able to
manage in their own home again, but need help to make the move. |
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| What will having a rehabilitation service be like? |
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Rebuild your skills and confidence in doing everyday
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Teach you new skills to help you manage at home |
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Keep you out of hospital, or permanent residential care, unless
this really is the right choice for you. |
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| What will having a rehabilitation service be like? |
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Rehabilitation is about encouraging and helping you to
do things for yourself. Typically, specially trained carers work with
you under the guidance of an occupational therapist or a physiotherapist.
They will give you advice on how to cope with your illness or disability,
or provide you with aids and equipment to help you do things more easily.
You should be following a written care plan, which alters as you
improve. |
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| How long will I have the service? |
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Each person's progress is different and it is difficult
to predict how long recovery will take. Typically, each service is
for a set period, but this may be extended or another rehabilitation
service offered, if that is the best thing to do. |
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| What if I still need help afterwards? |
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A very few people will not need any further help following
their short course rehabilitation programme, but most need to
have a different programme of rehabilitation, or long-term services
to help them maintain their health and independence.
If ongoing help is needed, users who still need long term support can
feel disappointed to find that the carers who provided their rehabilitation
service cannot provide this because their service provider
only provides rehabilitation, not longer term support. This is where
Barnsley Health fits in. |
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| What Does Barnsley Health Do? |
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We provide continuing exercise and treatment sessions
for people who have completed specific NHS short course Cardiac
Rehabilitation or Pulmonary
Rehabilitation programmes. We provide the longer term support
by offering comprehensive Long
Term Exercise programmes to help you maintain your health and
keep active and out of hospital. |
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Peter Scott - Team Leader
