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Quick Guide to Proper Wheelchair Positioning

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This visual guide serves as a quick reference for determining proper wheelchair positioning. A great piece to post in a wheelchair storage room and/or use for caregiver education as an initial screening tool to determine if therapy intervention may be warranted.
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Questions to Consider When Recommending Adaptive Strategies

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Occupational therapists are skilled at adaptation, however, sometimes clinicians go straight into recommending adaptive strategies without identifying what will be best for the patient/caregiver. This handout provides important questions to ask when considering the use of adaptive strategies with neurodegenerative disorders.
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Questions to Ask About Incontinence

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides questions to ask clients about incontinence, types of incontinence and normal bladder habits to assist in your evaluation.
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Diagnoses: Acute Versus Chronic

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource discusses many common respiratory diagnoses, categorized between acute vs. chronic. Interventions and education are significantly different when the client is looking at long term management of a diagnosis vs. short term difficulty with expected improvement back to prior level of function.
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Pseudobulbar Affect

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is a form of emotional lability that is observed as sudden, frequent, and unpredictable outbursts of crying and/or laughing. This handout can help educate patients and their caregivers about what it is, what it isn’t, areas of the brain that cause it, what to do if a person has it, and how […]
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Prevention of Pressure Sores

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Prevention is the key when it comes to pressure sores. This document describes ways to decrease risk as well as some tips if a sore has already developed.
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Problem-Solving Approach to Reduce Dementia Related Behaviors

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
As a person goes through the stages of dementia challenging behaviors may arise and cause increased caregiver stress and burden. Challenging behaviors are really clues that the person with dementia is providing. This piece describes challenging behaviors and how the environment, caregiver, and person with dementia may trigger an increase of behaviors. Also provided is […]
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Prevention of Falls from Bed

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource explains common reasons that clients fall from bed and utilizes a detailed and thorough approach to environmental, caregiver, and client interventions to reduce the risks.
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Pressure Sores

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Do you know someone who is not following their pressure sore prevention precautions? This document informs them of the risks of pressure sores and provide a better understanding of the importance of avoiding the injury.
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