I've been working at our Geriatric Rehab Unit this week. It's been a great experience and I've been learning so much. Patients are complicated but motivated to get better. It's a treat.
Their goals are mostly attainable. They want to be able to walk again, with or without a gait aid. They want to be continent of bladder and bowel. They want to remember how to make dinner. It takes a lot for some of these folks to literally get back on their feet. They've been in hospital dealing with a fractured hip or MI and become 'deconditioned' and need to rebuild their atrophied muscles, deal with the increase in dementia from inactivity and retrain their bladders to do what they used to know before they were catheterized for week.
Their families are heavily invested in their loved one's health.
Our patients spend a few hours a day in PT and OT, working with social workers and volunteers. When I do their admission interviews they tell me that they are here to work and excited to do so.
Unreal.
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