Community Stroke Rehabilitation Teams: Providing Home-Based Stroke Rehabilitation in Ontario, Canada

Community stroke rehabilitation teams: providing home-based stroke rehabilitation in Ontario, Canada.

BACKGROUND Community stroke rehabilitation teams (CSRTs) provide a community-based, interdisciplinary approach to stroke rehabilitation. Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of these teams with respect to client outcomes. METHODS Functional, psychosocial, and caregiver outcome data. were available at intake, discharge from the program, and six-month follow-up. Repeated measures analy...

Evidence-based community stroke rehabilitation.

S urvival after stroke initially can depend on the acute phase of specialist hospital care; however, the greatest impact on patient health and well-being is from the long-term consequences faced when stroke survivors leave the hospital. Optimal recovery requires the provision of coordinated specialist rehabilitation, not only in the early stages of returning home but also, usually, many months ...

Stroke Rehabilitation at Home

The modern hospital evolved from a place to care for the sick staffed by members of religious orders to a symbol of rationality and progress fostering medical innovation, professional development, science, research, and training. As hospitalization grew to be the norm for seriously ill patients, there was also the recognition that not all care had to be institutionalized, and in the 1960s, a pr...

Community-Based Stroke Rehabilitation: Recovery continued?

The effect of home-based stroke rehabilitation on quality of life of stroke survivors and their family caregiver's strain

Background: Rehabilitation is a main part of stroke treatment. Stroke causes reduced quality of life (QOL) among stroke survivors and significant strain on Caregivers.However, family role on the rehabilitation team andprogram should present on family-based. Aim: The effect of home-based stroke rehabilitation on quality of life of stroke survivors and their family caregiver strain. Method: This ...