What is Ageless Abilities?
Because many residents in senior living communities have some degree of dementia, our industry bears a responsibility to deliver innovative solutions for persons living with dementia and their dedicated caregivers. RISE Senior Living is prepared to support your community’s efforts through our ageless abilities program.
Ageless Abilities is a highly specialized, proprietary clinical program guided by certified RISE Senior Living clinicians. Physical, occupational, and speech therapists are trained to recognize, understand and treat the challenges facing residents in early, middle, and late stages of Alzheimer’s and dementia to provide resources, tools, training, and support to effectively utilize:
- Special interview techniques to define a resident’s individualized profile of life experiences, interests, and past roles
- Evidence-based stages of dementia scale to properly assess/anticipate resident needs and match demands to skill level
- Evaluation skills to assess internal and external environmental factors that contribute to successful engagements/therapy interventions (vs. risking increased agitation, withdrawn behavior, restlessness & wandering)
- Solutions-focused application of clinical expertise to recommend strategies for enhancing positive engagement
- Education, health literacy, and training resources to support caregivers and loved ones
Therapy Specific Strategies
As the disease process progresses, our therapists leverage Ageless Abilities to:
To learn more about RISE Senior Living's resources and expertise to stimulate significant health and lifestyle improvements, helping your residents age in place safely and with dignity, complete the form at the bottom of this page.
What is Defying Gravity?
Developed by RISE Senior Living clinical experts, Defying Gravity is a comprehensive program to identify fall risks and proactively prevent falls. Different from many traditional fall and balance programs, Defying Gravity offers strategies/tools to directly:
- Address the root cause of balance impairments
- Execute on meaningful, holistic solutions to mitigate physical and cognitive fall risks
Processes for Risk Identification
- Cross-functional communication via tools, meetings, lectures, grand rounds
- Standardized tools to assess baseline, uncover root cause(s) of balance disturbances
Skilled Interventions to Impact Functional Performance
- Reduce in/extrinsic factors and address “Core Factors of Balance”
- Train/empower IDT to ensure collaborative approach & carry-over
- Standardized tools to assess progress of interventions
Set Goals and Sustain Outcomes
- Train IDT to watch for status changes
- Monitor/report functional outcomes & performance measures
- (Re)Evaluate fall policies
- Focus on safety; transition to optimal level of care and wellness
To learn more about how RISE Senior Living therapists capture, monitor, report, and leverage functional gains and performance measures in their customization and implementation of Defying Gravity, complete the form at the bottom of this page.
What is Safe Transitions?
Our Safe Transitions clinical framework improves patient experience, minimizes the risk of rehospitalization, optimizes length of stay, and accelerates relationships with downstream providers. Embracing the philosophy discharge planning begins on admission, our patient-driven model offers:
- Clinical programs that support patients’ needs and goals for discharge
- Processes to define collaboration and timelines to meet LOS expectations (defined by network partners, conveners, ACOs)
- Use of home assessments to ensure meaningful outcomes (safety, functional abilities)
- Comprehensive patient/caregiver education throughout plan of care and beyond
To learn more about RISE Senior Living's progressive, multidisciplinary team of clinicians and the support and education they provide with your residents' safety in mind, complete the form at the bottom of this page.
Why a Wellness Program?
A proven wellness program is critical for senior living communities to offer residents to ensure successful aging and to maintain or improve independence. Our HealthyLiving, wellness program keeps your residents thriving and engaged with a variety of vibrant activities that spark interest, offer educational opportunities, and resident fulfillment. Grounded in the 6 Dimensions of Wellness, HealthyLiving promotes optimal health in body, mind, and spirit.
Discovery Series – An educational program helps senior living residents stay healthier, more active, and confident in their ability to enjoy life. Educational series are taught in a variety of methods, including lectures, active demonstration and clinics. Our resource library targets health concerns before they become problematic.
Health Literacy Series – Health literacy programs provide education around management of chronic medical conditions on an on-going basis, critical for mitigating hospitalizations and rehospitalizations.
Comprehensive Health and Wellness Assessment – Multi-dimensional assessment is comprised of ten standardized tests to support the on-going individual needs of residents, allowing for a smoother transition within the community and ensures successful aging in place, while establishing a baseline of function for individualized needs and summarizes the resident’s fall risk, balance, pain and transfer ability.
HealthyFIT – Customized wellness programs to encompass any combination of the 6 dimensions of wellness, focuses on providing one-on-one in person, group and/or virtual exercise activities to assist in maintaining the current level of function anytime residents need assistance with maintaining or increasing their current level of function. Frequency and intensity of training are determined by the resident and developed and implemented by licensed therapists.
Outcomes – HealthyLiving provides trended data based on the wellness outcomes tracking system. The outcomes are tracked by a management database and measures how well the HealthyLiving wellness program is being used and what value it brings to your residents. This benchmarking system provides outcomes that are community, setting and/or resident specific.
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