Services and Programs
Services offered within our programs that are medically necessary and ordered by your doctor may be covered by Medicare or Medicaid if you are 65 years and older. Services not covered by Medicare or Medicaid are based on a sliding scale and availability of resources.
Mobile Hybrid Outpatient Occupational Therapy
Helping you engage, participate and experience in all aspects of life that matter most
We understand the value of working directly with you in your home and community environment to fully address your priorities, limitations, abilities and needs.
Our Impact: Research reports that occupational therapy is uniquely positioned to address self-management from a holistic perspective, taking into account a client’s intrinsic factors (cognitive, psychological, physical, sensory, emotional, and spiritual) and extrinsic influences (culture, social determinants of health, social support and capital, the built and natural environment, and policy) while considering the roles and activities in which the client participates."
Services support:
Health Management
Self-Care
Home Management
Functioning in the Home and Community
Carepartner Education and Training
Participation in What Matters Most
Fall Prevention
Well-being and Quality of Life
Palliative Care and Hospice Support
Home Safety and Modification
Adaptive Equipment
Next STEP Program
Working together to create
Successful Transitions with Effective Planning
We believe aging in place requires having a plan in place.
Our team is here to help you identify your next step and support you and your loved ones as you navigate the impacts of medical challenges that affect your ability to remain in your home and community of choice and live with well-being and quality of life.
Our Impact: Research indicates that older adults can identify many barriers that threaten their ability to age in place but are often unaware or unable to access community resources to resolve the barriers and don’t even know who to talk to about their concerns.
We assist you in planning and connecting with community resources to:
assess and modify your environment,
address your overall functioning,
establish personal systems that match your priorities, limitations, abilities and needs,
restore a sense of control, purpose and authenticity through
learn the ongoing process of ReInventing Independence®
Home SAFE Program
Working together to create
Safe, Accessible, and Functional Environments
Completion of a Home Safety Assessment by an Occupational Therapist or Certified Aging in Place Specialist to identify common barriers
and provide practical environmental solutions for a safe, accessible and functional living space that matches your priorities, limitations, abilities and needs.
Our Impact: According to the National Poll on Healthy Aging, 88% of adults 50-80 felt it was important to remain in their home as long as possible. But only 1 out of 3 adults said that their home definitely had the features that would allow them to age in place.
Nearly half of older adults reported that they had given very little, if any, consideration to what home modifications would be needed to remain in their home throughout their lifespan.
Services include:
Completion of Home Safety Assessment
Recommendations for modifications
Recommendations for adaptive equipment and/or durable medical equipment
Project management and/or consultation with the handyperson or contractor
Support for ordering equipment
Follow up visit
Return Home Program
Working together to create a discharge plan that restores a sense of control for empowering you and your loved ones
We provide essential interdisciplinary communication and coordination of care across settings to support your medical team in creating a successful and seamless discharge home.
We provide you and your loved one's peace of mind and confidence for returning home following a medical event.
Our Impact: Research states that Elderly patients who experienced a major life event require a more robust discharge plan and additional coordination of care of services for increasing the patient's quality of life and reduce the rate of re-admission within 30 days, thus affecting reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid.
Services include:
Consultation with medical team to determine discharge status
Home Safety Assessment and recommendations for modifications and adaptive equipment for decrease fall risk
Coordination with contractor for modification completion before you return home to maintain function
Consulting and planning services to put systems in place to decrease risk of rehospitalization
HELP Program
Honoring End of Life Plans
Program
Our team of Occupational Therapy Practitioners and Certified End of Life Doulas act as an adjunct to your hospice or medical team and
provide support when navigating through unfamiliar & often uncomfortable medical
terrain surrounding End of Life care.
We help identify personal choices and preferences for you and your loved ones in order to advocate and facilitate your end of life wishes.
What is an End of Life Doula?
"End-of-Life Doulas provide non-medical, holistic support and comfort to the dying person and their family, which may include education and guidance as well as emotional, spiritual or practical care."
In the Spirit of OT Podcast:
Spirituality and End of Life Care: Preserving Control as Function Fails
Listen to Melissa and Michelle discuss managing change while honoring the person and ensuring quality of life, even at end of life.
Our Impact: Research reports 7 out of 10 Americans report they would rather die at home, but only 4 out of 10 Americans think they are most likely to die at home.
Although most report feeling comfortable talking to their doctor about their end of life wishes, only 22% of adults 65 and older have done so.
Of those reporting fair to poor health status, 63% report having too little control over health decisions.
Community and Professional Outreach and Education
Improving public health literacy through education and training
Providing education and training on strategies, interventions and resources to individuals, groups and professionals for managing the impact of medical challenges often associated with aging.
Our Impact: Education access and quality, a social determinant of health, improves health utilization and health equity, especially for those aging with a chronic and/or progressive disease.
Topics include:
Home Modification for Maintaining Function
Fall Prevention
Advance Care Planning
ReInventing Independence®
Partnership with
Meals on Wheels of Central Texas CAPABLE Program
Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders
The CAPABLE Program is made possible through the generous support of the St. David’s Foundation and is offered through Meals on Wheels of Central Texas.
It was developed at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and we are honored to partner with MOWCTX and provide the nursing and occupational therapy consultative services for this wonderful community aging in place program.
Our Impact: Studies show a multidisciplinary team approach is proven to help older adults live safely and independently in their homes while reducing healthcare costs.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 824 Dripping Springs, TX 78620
Call or Text:
512-651-0341
Email:
info@solaceandsage.org
Site:
www.solaceandsage.org