This is a video created by our physiotherapy students to demonstrate how your carer can help you to stretch your arms and legs. This exercise is great if you find these movements difficult to do yourself, as it shows your carer where to hold your arms and legs to make sure it is comfortable for both of you.
The video starts with slides explaining all about passive movements. (Please note, there is a small mistake- osteoporosis is a precaution, not a contraindication). Enjoy! At the moment lots of people are struggling to understand that their normal routines are changing. Just telling someone they aren't going to be doing what they normally do next isn't always enough to help them understand. Now/next/then boards can help show what the new routine is visually. The person can keep referring back to it, and can clearly see the routine rather than try and imagine it from what you have said.
You can make lots of pictures to represent activities, stick velcro on to the back of the picture and move them around, depending on the routine that day. Make sure you use pictures that makes sense to the person, and make it interesting for them to look at without being distracting. You can just make it a Now/Next board if 3 activities is too much for someone to deal with. How and why it is good to take deep breaths to help you get and stay well. These are for anyone to do but you can get some more help and advice from your local Physiotherapy team.
If you are very unwell and/or unable to say a whole sentence without stopping for breath you must seek urgent medical advice. A good position is important to help effective breathing. Please remember if you are so short of breath that you cannot complete a whole sentence then you must seek urgent medical advice.
A hospital passport or traffic light assessment is a document about you and your health.
It contains lots of useful and important information such as your likes, dislikes, interests, health conditions and how you like to be communicated with. Taking your hospital passport with you if you need to go in to hospital is really useful for the staff, it helps them learn about you and how you like to be supported. We hope your hospital passport helps improve your time spent in hospital This document gives advice on how to support yourself or someone else while they are staying at home.
The rules of Covid 19 keep changing, which can be hard.
This is a document to help people who might struggle with change understand and accept the changes each day. |