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Occupational Therapists recognise the interaction between you, your environment, and the activities that you want to complete in everyday life. Occupational Therapy promotes independence by taking a ‘whole person approach’ to both mental, emotional, and physical health, enabling you to achieve your full potential. We can do this by:
Palliative physiotherapy within a hospice has multiple purpose. The physiotherapist will listen to your needs and wishes whilst assessing and working with you to help set and achieve realistic goals. We can do this by:
A physiotherapy programme using the properties of warm water in our suitably heated hydrotherapy pool under the direction of our Registered Aquatic Physiotherapist.
The warm pool has many benefits, it can:
Not everyone will be appropriate for an aquatic therapy assessment, however if interested, please discuss with the Rehab Team.
Anyone in Luton and Bedfordshire with a palliative or life limiting long term illness can now self-refer or chose to be referred to the service as a patient referral by their GP, consultant or specialist nurse.
Palliative rehabilitation can help improve and ease many symptoms including breathlessness, pain, fatigue, reduced mobility and physical activity, low mood, altered body image, loss of identity/role and the lasting effects of treatment.
You can self-refer, or you can speak to your GP, consultant or specialist nurse and ask to be referred to us as a patient referral.
If you are a GP, consultant or specialist nurse, you should complete a Keech Hospice Care referral form, which can be downloaded here.
We contact you directly and arrange a one-to-one appointment to discuss your goals and expectations. This helps our team put together a rehabilitation plan tailored to you and your needs.
It will give you practical ways to manage your condition so you remain as independent as possible. At the moment, the service offers six groups: Short walking; Long walking; Crafty gardening; Stretch and balance; Circuit exercise; and Aquatic therapy. These groups are led by either our Palliative physiotherapist, Palliative occupational therapist or Palliative rehab assistant. The rehabilitation groups are intended to get you moving, thinking and socialising in a supportive, safe environment.
It’s based at Keech Hospice Care in Luton, although the service organises home visits as necessary.
Keech Hospice Care is in Great Bramingham Lane, just off the A6 on the outskirts of Luton (LU3 3NT).
As long as you need it. When you no longer require the rehabilitation support offered by the service, we advise you where you can find similar services in the community – for example, with Active Luton.
The service is FREE apart from any costs involved in getting to the groups or to Keech Hospice Care. If there are difficulties with transport, it is possible for us to organise for a volunteer driver to pick you up and take you home.
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