Neurological & community rehabilitation, and falls prevention services

Neurological and community rehabilitation and falls prevention services provide care for patients with neurological or long-term conditions or who have experienced a stroke or a fall.

Services aim to assist patients with:

• Gait re-education and falls prevention
• Promoting independence with daily activities such as bathing, shopping and meal preparation
• Returning to leisure activities
• Communication or swallowing difficulties
• Emotional difficulties
• Cognitive difficulties such as memory and attention
• Challenging behaviour
• Fatigue management

Services are provided in both community and inpatient settings, by multi-disciplinary teams with expertise that includes physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, clinical neurological psychology. Teams also include dieticians and rehabilitation assistants.

Services include:

• Falls services
• Neurological and community rehabilitation services, including epilepsy, multiple, sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and stroke. Services may also include input from a physiotherapist and dietician.

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