What to Expect

Nurses carry out skilled nursing tasks, prescribed treatments and intermittent supportive services. These may include case management, education and support of chronic conditions or new diagnoses, clinical assessments, pain management, medication management and wound treatment.

Physical Therapy restores movement and prevents further disability and includes balance training, home safety assessment, walking, fall prevention, instructions in the use of assistive devices such as cane, walker, and wheelchair, climbing stairs, managing uneven surfaces, transfers, pain control and exercises for balance, stretching and strengthening.

Occupational Therapy maximizes endurance and the ability to safely carry out daily routine with dressing, grooming, bathing, eating, meal preparation, and the movement necessary during self-care for toileting or getting in and out of the tub or shower. Concentration on the use of adaptive equipment or adaptive therapies that compensate for physical limitations; strength, endurance, and upper extremity coordination needed to perform daily tasks, problem-solving, and safety in a home setting. Restores movement and prevents further disability and includes balance training, home safety assessment, walking, fall prevention, instructions in the use of assistive devices such as cane, walker, wheelchair, climbing stairs, managing uneven surfaces, transfers, pain control, and exercises for balance, stretching and strengthening.

Speech and Language Therapy specializes in treating communication and swallowing disorders with a focus on improving speech quality, written and adaptive communication, reading comprehension and safe swallowing strategies.

Personal care assistance may include daily living activities such as: bathing, dressing, grooming, walking, transfer assistance, incontinence care, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and weight monitoring as requested by your physician to support your medical needs on a weekly basis while you recuperate.

Assists with identifying supportive resources to help you meet your goals, remain as independent as possible, assess your living situation, counseling, and assistance with emotional issues, grief, loss, financial and health care directives.

Medicare, Medicaid, HMO, private insurance and private pay cover the fees of Optage Home Care.