Guardian Angels Consulting Services LLC

There's No Place Like Home (O.T. & Environmental Assessment)

Description
Objectives
Agenda
About the Presenter
Location
Date and Cost
Certification
Registration

Description

 Almost every client you work with who is hospitalized or is in a residential facility desires the skills that will enable them to return home. Home environmental assessment is a service that can be a crucial component in facilitating that return. Effective home environmental assessments & recommendations can help prevent future hospitalizations and help keep your client safe so that they are more likely to REMAIN HOME.

Occupational therapists tend to be the most diversely skilled members of the rehabilitation team. This program is designed for the novice and intermediate occupational therapist or assistant provide this service in order to effectively and efficiently facilitate a safe transition to your client’s home.

Objectives

 Describe the physiologic functioning of the respiratory system, the role of oxygen in the body and the general effects of oxygen deprivation.
  1. Identify OT, PT and ST components of functional performance to be assessed in the home environment.
  2. Identify primary and secondary safety risks in the home.
  3. Identify methods to formulate home modification recommendations and referrals.
  4. Examine safety-proofing strategies for persons with dementia.

Agenda

 

8 – 8:30        Registration 
8:30 – 10       Part I 
10:00 – 10:15   Refreshment Break 
10:30 – 12      Part II

About the Presenter

 Lisa Heisler, OTR

Ms. Heisler has practiced in a number of settings including acute care, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, return to work, home health, transitional and long-term care programs. She has experience not only as a clinician but also as a manager and director if interdisciplinary programs on a local and regional basis. She is a member of WOTA where she has held office of Vice President of Practice, AOTA, the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, American Society on Aging and the Wisconsin Coalition of Aging Groups. Ms Heisler has provided training programs at state and national levels, including having been selected by the National Council on Aging for the past three years to provide training programs at their national conventions.


Location

 Oak Creek Community Center
8580 S. Howell Ave.
Oak Creek, WI
414-768-5840

The Oak Creek Community Center is located near the corner of Howell and Puetz Rd in Oak Creek, approximately 7 miles south of Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee.

414-768-5840

Date and Cost

 Saturday, April 24, 2004
8:30am - 12pm
$85.00


Register by April 1, 2004 to be entered in a drawing for a home eval. toolbox worth over $70

Certification

 Certificates of attendance with contact hours for each program provided at the end of each program. Contact us if you would like this workshop conducted at your facility

Registration

 Registration:
Name: 
Address: 
City: 
Zip: 
Phone: 
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No Place Like Home:$85.00 
Paperwork as Treatment:$75.00 
OR
Both Programs (registered before April 1st, 2004) $135.00 
Total:  

Print this page, fill in the information, and then detach and return with checks made payable to:

Guardian Angels Consulting Services
PO Box 123
Manitowoc, WI 54221-0123


Paid registration MUST be received by April 14, 2004. You will receive confirmation of your registration.

NO EXCEPTIONS. All registrations received after this date will be returned. There is NO on site registration.

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