Deans' stroke musings: Home visits improve outcomes for stroke patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Home visits improve outcomes for stroke patients

NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Survivors want 100% recovery results, not just wishy-washy wording of 'positive impact'.

Maybe after you are the 1 in 4 per WHO that has a stroke? Will that finally get you to solve stroke?

Home visits improve outcomes for stroke patients

A report detailing outcomes for stroke patients in Windsor-Essex suggests home visits are having a positive impact on patients’ well-being and recovery.
The report for Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare by their Research and Evaluation Team suggests patients are leaving the hospital sooner, engaging more with work and social activities, and experiencing a better quality of life.
Patients returned home an average of seven days sooner, knowing the Rehab Outreach Team would follow their progress at home. Engagement in activities outside of their homes increased by 30 per cent, while their quality of life improved 14 per cent.
“We set out to better meet the needs of our stroke patients and their families,” said CEO Janice Kaffer. “In 2016, we shifted resources to allow for intensive follow-up services supporting stroke patients after discharge from our inpatient program, right in their homes.”
Staff have made more than 12,000 home visits. Of those, 10,864 have been to see stroke patients.
The report went on to show home visits have been especially helpful for patients who live outside Windsor.
One of the program’s first patients, Stewart Wolfe, lives in Kingsville. He suffered his stroke in the summer of 2016 and relied on rehabilitation for cognitive and physical impairments.
“Kingsville is a long way from Windsor. After having his stroke, even getting in and out of the car was a challenge,” said his wife, Carolyn Wolfe. “I couldn’t imagine having to travel to Windsor twice a week for rehabilitation during that time. As his primary caregiver, it was such a relief that he was getting the services he needed in the comfort of his home.”
Windsor-Essex has among the highest rates of acute hospitalizations because of stroke. Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare provides post-acute inpatient rehab for about 35 per cent of those patients each year.