Hurricane and Disaster Preparedness for Home Health: Protecting Patients and Sustaining Operations on the Texas Gulf Coast

How Home Health Agencies and Clinicians Prepare Medically Fragile Patients and Maintain Care Continuity Through Hurricane Season and Other Regional Disasters Hurricane season is an operational and clinical reality that…

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Infection Control and Prevention in Home Health Therapy Practice: What Every Clinician Must Know

Clinical Standards for Preventing Infection Transmission Between Patients and Protecting Both Patients and Clinicians in the Home Setting Infection control in home health therapy practice presents distinctive challenges that differ…

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Polypharmacy in Home Health: The OT, PT, and MSW Role in Identifying and Addressing Medication Risk

How Therapy Disciplines Contribute to Medication Safety in a Population Where the Average Patient Takes Multiple Prescriptions Daily Polypharmacy — commonly defined as the concurrent use of five or more…

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Low Vision and Blindness in Home Health: The OT Contribution to a Frequently Overlooked Functional Domain

How Occupational Therapy Addresses Vision Loss as a Distinct Functional Impairment Requiring Its Own Assessment and Intervention Approach Vision impairment is one of the most functionally consequential and most clinically…

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Ostomy and Continence Care in Home Health: The OT and MSW Contribution to a Nursing-Led Clinical Domain

How Occupational Therapy and Medical Social Work Support Functional Independence and Psychosocial Adjustment for Patients With Ostomies and Continence Conditions Ostomy care and continence management are primarily nursing clinical domains…

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ALS and Motor Neuron Disease Home Health: A Progressive, Multidisciplinary Clinical Approach

How OT, PT, SLP, and MSW Adapt Their Practice Across the Trajectory of a Relentlessly Progressive Neurodegenerative Disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis presents home health therapy with a clinical challenge unlike…

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Traumatic Brain Injury Home Health: Clinical Competencies for OT, PT, SLP, and MSW Serving This Complex Population

What Every Home Health Clinician Must Know About Cognitive, Physical, and Behavioral Rehabilitation Following TBI Traumatic brain injury produces one of the most heterogeneous and clinically demanding patient populations in…

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The Community of Home Health Practice: On the Shared Professional Identity That Connects Everyone Who Does This Work

A Reflection on What OT, PT, SLP, MSW, and Home Health Agency Leaders Share Across the Disciplines and Roles That Home Health Requires Home health practice creates a professional identity…

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Cancer-Related Fatigue in Home Health: Evidence-Based OT and PT Management of the Most Prevalent and Undertreated Symptom in Oncology

Clinical Strategies for Addressing Cancer-Related Fatigue That Go Beyond Rest — and That Produce Measurable Functional Improvement Cancer-related fatigue is the most prevalent symptom experienced by cancer patients — affecting…

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Language Access and Immigrant Communities in Home Health: Serving Houston’s Diverse Patient Population Equitably

How Home Health Agencies Can Build the Language Access Infrastructure and Cultural Competency That Houston's Diversity Requires Houston is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the United States…

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