Many families are faced with difficulties when their loved one experiences a recent fall or medical injury that requires more care than the family or their nursing home can provide.
If your loved one lives at home, you may consider putting them into a rehabilitation center or a skilled nursing facility to allow them to recover.
If they live at an assisted living facility without on-site rehabilitation, you’ll need to transfer them into a rehabilitation center, which can add unnecessary stress to your loved one.
Luckily, many assisted living communities, like The Kensington Redondo Beach, feature on-site geriatric physical therapists to help your loved one recover their mobility and strength after an injury or medical issue. This allows your loved one a smooth transition from the hospital to our assisted living community or our memory care neighborhoods.
Our partnership with HealthPro Heritage contributes to a higher level of care with their geriatric rehabilitation program, which includes physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.
Our goal of this article is to highlight what geriatric physical therapy is, what types of ailments or conditions this can help heal and strengthen, and how The Kensington’s partner for on-site rehabilitation can offer the best care in a community setting.
What is geriatric physical therapy?
Geriatric physical therapy is a practice that’s meant to promote, restore, and retain physical motor skills, mobility, and rehabilitation for aging adults.
The natural effects of aging can lead to wear and tear on your loved one’s joints, muscles, spine, and their nervous system. This causes pain, inflammation, mobility issues, and even memory loss or speech-related difficulties.
Unlike younger people, older adults tend to bounce back and heal at a slower rate, which is why geriatric physical therapy is so important. When these health issues are addressed immediately, and by licensed professionals, it’s possible to improve your loved one’s strength and balance, allowing them to live a longer, healthier life.
If gone untreated, these health issues can quickly compound to create a detrimental effect on your loved one’s physical and mental health.
Geriatric physical therapy is used both to prevent injuries and treat injuries as they occur. No matter what condition your loved one is in, they can almost always benefit from a customized physical therapy plan. Whether they’ve sprained their ankle or had a full hip replacement, geriatric physical therapy can help them regain mobility and motor function.
What Geriatric Ailments and Conditions Benefit from Physical Therapy?
Our HealthPro Heritage offers expertise in the following common ailments and symptoms that aging people often need special assistance with:
- Post-Operative Joint Replacement (such as after knee or hip replacement)
- Neurologic & Stroke Recovery (helping to re-learn how to walk and talk after a stroke)
- Fractures
- Cardiac Care (including reducing pain from open-heart surgery)
- Pain Management
- Arthritis
- Fall Prevention/Balance
- Memory Enhancement
- Bladder Health
- Parkinson’s Disease
While all aging people can benefit from geriatric physical therapy, people experiencing the above-related health issues often see the biggest benefits to help them regain their strength, balance, and motor skills.
Get geriatric physical therapy on-site at The Kensington Redondo Beach with HealthPro Heritage
Getting physical therapy on-site at The Kensington Redondo Beach is as simple as stopping by our rehabilitation offices and saying hello!
We encourage all new and existing residents to start a long-term relationship with our rehabilitation staff to create a customized physical therapy plan based on their needs.
Our HealthPro Heritage staff focuses on the proactive, reactive, and sustainable approaches to resident care. They are capable of helping your loved one with any level of medical crisis that may arise but seek to minimize injuries through frequent exercise programs and educational classes.
Stop by to talk with our therapists, personal trainers, and exercise physiologists to address any health or mobility-related concerns. They can also provide insurance-covered annual health and wellness assessments, and provide regular follow-ups.
Our licensed team will take care of any necessary medical provider authorizations and insurance approvals, so you can get started with therapy right away!
What is HealthPro Heritage and how are they different from other rehabilitation programs?
We’re proud to partner with HealthPro Heritage, the region’s premier leader in rehabilitation services and physical therapy, to offer all our residents top-of-the-line rehabilitation services within our beautiful community.
All of our HealthPro Heritage rehabilitation specialists are located on-site and work hand-in-hand with The Kensington’s own fitness, wellness, and rehab programs to strengthen our residents’ bodies and minds.
HealthPro Heritage works by embedding their licensed, caring professionals on-site at assisted living communities, such as The Kensington Redondo Beach, to allow for a more seamless approach to geriatric physical therapy.
We pride ourselves in our promise to love and care for your loved ones as we do our own, and that’s what attracted us to using HealthPro Heritage. They too, share a higher calling that goes above and beyond providing rehabilitation services. Their team members truly care about the people they serve.
In addition, HealthPro Heritage has a depth of experience greater than any other rehabilitation provider in the industry and offers a truly innovative in-house therapy management model that enables us to provide on-site services for our residents.
What sets HealthPro Heritage’s team apart from other rehabilitation specialists is that they focus on preventing injuries before they happen. They offer proactive, reactive, and sustainable approaches to resident care. Of course, they are also here to help your loved one recover from more serious injuries.
How The Kensington and HealthPro Heritage approach rehabilitation and recovery:
Our partnership with HealthPro Heritage is a multidimensional approach that includes the following specialties.
- HealthyLiving: Our wellness program encompasses six dimensions to achieve optimal health in body, mind, and spirit.
- Discovery Series: Our educational programs and clinics on health topics that foster healthy living.
- HealthyFIT: Our private wellness program provides one-to-one training to maintain function after skilled therapy services.
From hospitalization to recovery, in a community setting.
The Kensington Redondo Beach’s partnership with Health Pro Heritage can smooth the transition of your loved one recovering from a medical procedure, injury, or other health condition with their move into an assisted living or memory care community.
Our dynamic and adaptive community setting offers your loved one exceptional, around-the-clock, individualized care.
We offer our geriatric physical therapy services to all of our residents no matter their abilities.
Are you interested in learning more about our community, physical therapy, and amenities offered? Contact us today to speak with one of our team members.
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