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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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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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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Social Determinants of Health in Home Health: How the Conditions Where Patients Live Shape Every Clinical Outcome

Why the Home Health Team Must Address Housing, Food, Transportation, and Economic Security as Clinical Priorities — Not Just Social Services Social determinants of health — the conditions in which…

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Ethical Dilemmas in Home Health Therapy: How Clinicians Navigate Complex Professional Situations

A Practical Guide to the Most Common Ethical Challenges in Home-Based Practice and the Frameworks for Resolving Them Home health therapy practice generates ethical dilemmas with a frequency and complexity…

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Cultural Competence in Home Health: Serving Houston’s Extraordinarily Diverse Patient Population

Why Cultural Awareness, Language Access, and Culturally Responsive Clinical Practice Are Clinical Necessities in the Houston Market Houston is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities on Earth.…

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