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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COPD Management in Home Health: Evidence-Based OT, PT, and MSW Approaches for the High-Burden Pulmonary Population

Clinical Strategies That Reduce Exacerbations, Improve Functional Capacity, and Support Self-Management in COPD Home Health Patients Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is one of the most prevalent conditions in the home…

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Heart Failure Readmission Prevention in Home Health: The Clinical Strategies That Actually Move the Needle

A Deep Dive Into the Evidence-Based Interventions That Reduce 30-Day Readmission Rates for Heart Failure Patients Heart failure readmission is the quality metric that commands more attention, more regulatory scrutiny,…

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