Christmas may very well be a interval of isolation for some individuals, together with senior residents, who could also be homebound or nursing an sickness.
West Park Healthcare Centre, which has piloted a brand new Geriatric Fast Rehab initiative, supplies the aged not simply with bodily assist but in addition connects them with seniors’ packages.
“My philosophy is everybody wants somebody and, significantly for older individuals, who possibly reside at dwelling and don’t have as a lot household assist or don’t have as a lot neighborhood assist’’, stated Dr Jamal DePradine, West Park’s Geriatrician and Fast Rehab program lead.
West Park Healthcare Centre, situated at 82 Buttonwood Avenue within the Jane Road and Weston Street space of Toronto, was established 118 years in the past and is dedicated to a mission of offering “exemplary care impressed by innovation and distinctive efficiency’’.
In accordance with West Park officers, the Centre assists sufferers to “get their lives again by offering specialised rehabilitative and sophisticated care after a life‐altering sickness or harm, corresponding to lung illness, amputation, stroke, and traumatic musculoskeletal accidents’’.
West Park, which has greater than 1000 workers, has educational affiliation with the College of Toronto, Humber Faculty, George Brown Faculty, Centennial Faculty, Seneca Faculty and the Michener Institute of Schooling on the College Well being Community.
The Geriatric Fast Rehab program, led by DePradine, is being run in collaboration with the emergency division at St Joseph’s Well being Centre.
It’s described as a “high-intensity program’’ that’s provided for as much as 14 days. This system, targeted on serving to seniors get again on their toes, has attracted sufferers residing not simply within the Metropolis of Toronto, but in addition from outdoors of the GTA.
“We work to flag older people who find themselves within the emergency division and to expedite their switch to our geriatric drugs unit right here at West Park, in order that they’ll have a full and complete assessment with myself and the remainder of the crew,’’ stated DePradine, a College of Toronto medical graduate, who accomplished each his Inside Drugs and Geriatric Drugs Residencies on the College of Ottawa.
“It’s actually to supply them with a complete tune up in order that they’re able to efficiently transition again dwelling,’’ defined DePradine, who additionally has a sub-specialty curiosity in geriatric cognitive problems, significantly within the context of concomitant frailty and medical co-morbidity.
DePradine and his crew are assured that delivered efficiently, the Geriatric Fast Rehab program would have an amazing impression on affected person care and the well being system, together with “sustaining performance for seniors, to allow them to stay residing independently and avoiding admission and repeat visits’’ to hospitals’ emergency departments.
West Park Healthcare Centre will develop its geriatric providers with the opening of a brand new hospital, with extra beds, subsequent 12 months.
