Durable Medical Equipment
The most popular mode of transportation to and from therapy sessions.
What is a wheelchair?
These sometimes colorful accents should be removed from the floor to avoid tripping and falling accidents.
What is an area rug?
Something that is stretchy and makes putting tennis shoes on easier.
What is elastic shoe laces?
The plastic box with individual boxes for each day and sometimes for morning, noon and night.
What is a pill box?
Skilled therapy that works with upper extremities, dressing, bathing and toileting.
What is OT?
The piece of equipment placed at the side of your bed to make going to the bathroom much easier and safer.
What is a bedside commode?
Something that should be bright and plentiful especially during the night to keep you safer during mobility.
What is a light/nightlight?
What is a reacher?
Nausea, dizziness, fatigue, etc.
What is possible side effects of medication?
3 hours per day for 5 out of 7 days per week.
What is therapy schedule at Encompass Health of Florence?
The piece of equipment used during walking that helps keep you balanced and upright.
What is a walker?
An item that is best installed by a professional in the bathroom or hallways to assist with balance and mobility.
What is a grab bar or hand rail?
Whoever invented this item to help us put on our socks is definitely very rich!
What is a sock aid?
Doctor, pharmacist, family member, 911, etc
Who would you call with issues about medication?
Skilled therapy that works on mobility in and outside, moving from surface to surface and lower extremity strengthening.
What is PT?
The piece of equipment that is placed in the shower/tub to let you sit down during bathing.
What is a shower chair or tub bench?
An alarm that is connected to an outside agency and emergency services that is worn at all times to allow someone to continue to live alone in their own home.
What is life alert?
Something that makes cleaning your back, scrubbing your toes and bathing much easier.
What is a long handled sponge?
An example of this may be -
Alprazolam - take 1 tablet by mouth daily as needed. Diclofenac SOD DR - take 1 tablet by mouth twice daily. Gabapentin - take 1 capsule by mouth at bedtime.
What is a prescription?
This group has a doctor, nurses, aides, a case manager, dietary, PT, OT and possibly ST & respiratory.
Who is my care team at Encompass Health of Florence?
The piece of equipment that you use for long walks that allows you to lock the wheels and sit down.
What is a rollator?
A professionally installed piece of equipment that has a foot of length for every inch of rise.
What is a handicap ramp?
What is sitting?
Abbreviation for taking a medication as needed, not on a schedule.
What is PRN?
Skilled therapy that works on swallowing and cognition.
What is Speech Therapy?