Live Independently

We address cognitive-linguistic deficits through therapy services that address the cognitive abilities that start to decline as we age. By handling executive function tasks, we can help residents manage time, remain organized, form goals, plan and execute plans effectively and self-monitor. Our therapists work as a team to address executive function impairments. These impairments not only affect memory but also correlate with residents with balance and gait impairments who rely on cognition to compensate for physical deficits.

Pain can make it hard to do the things residents enjoy and can change their relationships and independence, as well as cause physical symptoms. Encore therapists work with residents to restore normal movement patterns and offer compensatory techniques when necessary. We also offer modalities such as myofascial release, soft tissue manipulation, and knowledge of modalities to facilitate pain management with musculoskeletal injuries.

For residents whose quality of life has been affected by difficulties during mealtimes, our therapists can help provide a dietary analysis to determine if a resident has a potential need for therapy to address this problem. Through diet alterations, pacing, postural/position techniques, and maneuvers, our therapists can help provide relief that helps make eating and/or drinking more comfortable and safe.

Our therapists will consider many causes of balance changes when developing a service plan to help residents regain muscle strength and balance, improving their gait quality and reducing their fall risk. We also offer a virtual reality (VR) solution for assessing fall risk in seniors and other populations, which allows our clinicians to identify risk factors and focus on prevention.

Incontinence can harm a resident’s social, emotional, and psychosocial life. Our clinicians use pelvic muscle exercises, environmental adaptations, and bladder retraining to help residents improve their lives by reducing incontinence episodes.

Our wellness program encourages residents to adopt healthy habits and engage in activities that promote better health and improve their quality of life. We provide various wellness services based on the whole person concept, which recognizes that everything a resident does, thinks, feels, or believes impacts their health.

To promote wellness,  we offer remote therapeutic monitoring devices to track, assess, and monitor residents’ health conditions, musculoskeletal system, respiratory system, therapy adherence, and response.

Our therapists ask all the (right/meaningful) questions to identify: