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Exploring the Essential Features of “Dawn Heiderscheidt – Home Modifications for Rehab Clinicians: Solutions for geriatric adults with chronic conditions, disabilities, and age-related functional decline – PESI”
Speaker: Dawn Heiderscheidt
Format: Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
Aging in place is here to stay. Healthcare is rapidly shifting to a home & value-based model, so patients are being sent home with significantly higher levels of impairment and illness than ever before.
Therapists must be prepared to make home modification recommendations to prevent rehospitalizations and adverse events—beyond just the “bandaid” of a grab bar. But large-scale renovations can seem daunting and intimidating…
That’s why I put together this course—to be your GO-TO guide for understanding your role as a rehab clinician in home safety assessments and modifications. Learn how you can:
Integrate a comprehensive home safety assessment in a timely manner
Implement a simple step-by-step framework to oversee home modification projects from start to finish!
Fall proof a home in 4 easy steps
Specialized recommendations for TBI, SCI, peripheral neuropathy and more!
Get paid! Understand implications for Medicare, waiver programs and cash-based pay!
This is your opportunity to get ahead of the curve! This rapidly growing market desperately needs more trained clinicians. You have a unique skill set that allows you to anticipate future needs and finally make long lasting independence a possibility! Expand your opportunities to work outside the traditional medical model with this sought-after skill set that will boost your referrals and add a cash-based revenue stream to your practice.
Speaker
Dawn Heiderscheidt, MOT, OTR/L, ECHM, CDCS, is the owner and CEO of Aurora Independence — a company focused on home safety consulting and home modifications. While working in acute/subacute home-based rehabilitation settings, she consistently saw patients returning to her caseload due to falls and home safety concerns. This is what sparked her desire to serve people and help keep them safe at home. She holds her Executive Certification in Home Modifications, she is a Certified Aging in Place specialist and acts as Program Admin for Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE). Beyond this she partners with local non-profits, Habitat for Humanity and local universities to help guide the next generation of Occupational Therapists in Home Modifications.
Before becoming an OT, she spent years as an educator in Philadelphia, PA. She continues to have a strong desire to educate and empower others through therapy sessions, speaking engagements, and instructing courses. She also partners with several start-ups, offering concierge services to Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Dawn has been a guest lecturer at Temple University and provides fall prevention workshops in her community.
Dawn is passionate about helping people live in their homes successfully and participate in the activities they love. She continues to seek new knowledge and build connections for home safety, home modifications, and aging in place.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dawn Heiderscheidt is the founder and CEO of Aurora Independence. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dawn Heiderscheidt is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, the National Board of Occupational Therapy, and the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association.
Objectives
- Determine the role of the clinician within a multidisciplinary team working on environmental modifications.
- Evaluate different assessments/protocols on the market and their reliability/validity.
- Employ a five step process to a beginning home safety evaluation.
- Determine 3 or more risks associated with increased falls that may impact the home modification process.
- Inspect ADA and its roles/considerations in regards to home/ environmental modifications.
- Propose 3 or more interventions that accommodate various budgets.
- Investigate characteristics of three aging in place markets.
Outline
Foundations for Home Modifications and the Role of Rehab Clinicals
- State of the market
- Needs assessment
- Role of therapists: PT/OT/SLP
- Getting paid: How to bill for home safety assessment
Considerations for Medicare
Waiver programs
Cash based
Home Safety Evaluation: A Guide to Decision Making
- PRAMPI Method
- Pre-assessment
- Risk
Internal: age, motivation, buy-in
External: thresholds, rise/run, lighting - Ability – modifiable conditions and factors
Medications
Environment: rental vs owning - Behaviors and performance patterns
Money
Assessing for every budget: low high
Funding sources - Plan it out
Design collaboration
Beauty-marries-function - Implementation
Contractor and rehab role
Interventions: Specials Considerations for ADA vs. Home
- Bathroom & kitchen: counter height, clearance, appliances, kick plate, turning radius, thresholds, electric
- Thresholds egress, entrance
- Ramps: strength, rise vs run, caregiver strength, weight/width, mobility devices
- Age tech options: Alexa, Dot, Ring, Monitoring Systems
Preparation & Design for Special Populations
- Aging market – urgent and non-urgent/progressive
- SCI
- TBI
- Neuropathy
- Dementia
- Fall risk
Before and After: Examples of Home Modifications
- Universal design
- Leveraging the community
- Assisting the self-sufficient client
Taking Home Mods to the Next Level
- Home accessibility assessments
- CCAP, I-HOPE, CASPR, HSST, COURGAR, Heap, Westmead, SAFER-home-3
- Trending Topics
- Fall monitoring systems
- Auxiliary housing units
- Grab bar technology
- Rising toilet seats
- AGE tech
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
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