Star Home Nursing provides assistance in making these changes to prevent additional strokes as well as to facilitate the patient’s life-long recovery. The best defense against recurrent stroke is good offense.
Our nurses are equipped with information for preventing another stroke, with adequate awareness of possible symptoms and risk factors. Star Home Nursing offers help to patients and their families in managing their health in order to reduce the risk of recurrent stroke.
Safety After Stroke
Many areas of the patient’s life will be impacted and adaptations will need to be made to be safer. We offer advice in modifying patients home environment to prevent accidents as they move around the house. Our nurses will help in finding different ways to accommodate life after stroke that will depend on the patient’s strength, ability and judgment.Recovery After Stroke
There’s still so much we don’t know about how the brain compensates for the damage caused by stroke.In some cases, the brain cells may be only temporarily damaged, not killed, and may resume functioning over time. In other cases, the brain can reorganize its own functioning. Every once in a while, a region of the brain “takes over” for a region damaged by the stroke. Stroke survivors sometimes experience remarkable and unanticipated recoveries that can’t be explained. General recovery guidelines show:- 10% of stroke survivors recover almost completely
- 25% recover with minor impairments
- 40% experience moderate to severe impairments requiring special care
- 10% require long-term care in the home
- 15% die shortly after the stroke
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation actually starts in the hospital as soon as possible following a stroke. In patients who are stable, rehabilitation may begin within two days after the stroke has occurred, and should be continued as necessary after release from the hospital.The long-term goal of rehabilitation is to improve function so that the stroke survivor can become as independent as possible. This must be accomplished in a way that preserves dignity and motivates the survivor to relearn basic skills that the stroke may have impaired—skills like bathing, eating, dressing and walking.
We at Star Home Nursing provide rehabilitation in order to get back to normal life and help patients live an independent life as possible. It involves taking an active approach to ensure that the patient’s life goes on. This can mean learning new skills or relearning old ones. It may involve adapting to new limitations and post-stroke conditions, or it can mean finding new social, emotional, and practical support to have a better quality of life post-stroke. We help stroke survivors and their families in finding workable solutions to most difficult situations by approaching every problem with patience, ingenuity, perseverance and creativity. With good care and rehabilitation, there is life after stroke.
