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Care home therapy service

Therapists providing home visits in Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire & Taunton

Introduction

Care home physiotherapy and occupational therapy service for residents in Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Taunton care homes. 

Therapy in care homes plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life for elderly residents. We offer a specialist elderly care, falls and frailty service. Our physio and occupational therapists are experts in the fields of neurology, respiratory and musculoskeletal care as well as managing the complex co-morbidities of older people. 

We can help your residents maintain mobility, reduce pain, and prevent falls through exercises and activity. We focus on enabling residents to perform daily activities independently to improve their dignity and self-esteem. This interaction with therapists is fun and engaging and gives people goals to work towards, which improves quality of life for older people.

Our therapy team are caring, holistic and thorough in our approach. We build good relationships with the staff at the home as well as the residents and their families. We have experience of working as an external team alongside care homes with their own cultures, navigating the barriers, prioritising the care of each resident. We can pick up different IT systems quickly, ensuring timely note writing, handover and actions are completed. We have direct communication with family members, take part in multi-disciplinary team meetings and make or recommend clinical referrals.

Pricing and how we work

We charge a fixed hourly rate to provide our service, paid for by the care home. There are many factors to agree on before the therapy service can commence and we have a step-by-step guide to help design a service to suit your residents. When we first start we will need to assess each person identified as needing therapy input (based on the criteria for referral). Assessments take approx 1.5 hours and there is a lot of work to be done including handover, clinical assessment, treatment planning, onward referrals, note writing, liaison with care staff, external healthcare professionals and family members. 

Once each person has had an assessment the care plans and risk assessments may be updated based on the goals identified, and staff may need support with manual handling and supporting mobility.

We then will have a list of residents who need follow-up therapy and this consists of shorter 30 – 40 minute sessions working on progressing mobility and achieving the person’s goals, training care staff, liaising with family members. Sometimes it is determined that a person will not progress with therapy and therefore it is unethical to offer rehab. We are experienced and sensitive when communicating this to residents and family members. Usually people can engage in some form of exercise for maintaining the level of mobility they currently have, rather than progressing to be more mobile. This can be a program which the care staff can support ongoing once prescribed by our therapists. 

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Care home therapy services we offer

Initial assessments and falls assessments

We offer holistic, thorough 1.5 hour initial assessments including multi factorial falls risk assessments in line with current guidelines for older people.

Exercise classes in care homes

We offer group exercise classes in care homes either seated or standing. We do individual assessments and risk assessments. Please contact us for more information.

Follow up therapy sessions

Physio and occupational therapist sessions 30-40 mins long working towards goals to improve quality of life.

Silent Disco in care homes

Up to date 3 - channel headsets x 23 with receivers and cables required for playlists from mobile phone/iPad/laptop. Please contact us for more information.

My mother, who is a resident in a care home, had problems with her chair, some falls, and moving and handling. Faye, supported by Kelly (both from Severn Physiotherapy) provided a wide ranging, thorough and insightful assessment in the home, carefully and compassionately assessing our mother and the staff handling her over a 2 hour period. Faye also assessed her needs for a suitable chair in great detail. The resulting report has been very useful in helping us decide on a suitable chair, and in helping staff with appropriate moving and handling, including the use of a hoist. These can be difficult issues for both care home residents and staff, and Faye conducted the assessment sensitively, involving both my mother and the staff appropriately in the process. I would thoroughly recommend Severn Physiotherapy to anyone in a similar position, and I am sure their other services are equally as good.
R Gibbins
R GibbinsSon
A really great sports massage it's helped with trouble I was getting when training my legs at the gym. Kelly is very knowledgeable, and was able to give me some great advice for when I train. Will definitely go back for more treatment
E Cole
E ColeMarketing
Had a fantastic, relaxing pregnancy massage from Skye. Gentle and soothing whilst alleviating the general aches and pains. Friendly and professional service and great that you can enjoy your massage in the comfort of your own home
A Madden
A MaddenMother
Kelly has been seeing my elderly Mum to help get back on her feet after breaking her femur. She is very professional, caring, communicative and lovely. She is so kind to Mum and I wouldn't hesitate in recommending her to anyone seeking a first class physiotherapist. Thank you so much Kelly!
S Gamlin
S GamlinDaughter
My wife recently broke her hip and Kelly is currently treating her following her discharge from hospital. It was such a relief to find Kelly, her skill, professionalism and patience is exceptional, she has even contacted our GP on my wife's behalf. We have complete confidence in her and her ability to ensure my wife regains full mobility as soon as possible. I can recommend Kelly unreservedly.
A Wilson
A WilsonHusband
Skye works with my elderly father who has dementia and ankylosing spondylitis. Sadly he is no longer able to walk, but Skye is working on his upper body, core and leg strength to enable him to retain as much mobility as possible. She has a very good relationship with him, which is built on respect and trust. She listens to him, checks how he is feeling and moves at his pace. Her positive attitude means that Dad, who can be quite hard to motivate, is enthusiastic about doing the exercises and perseveres even when he finds it difficult. Skye is conscientious about communicating with us as a family and suggesting ways we can get involved in Dad's exercise programme. I have no hesitation in recommending the practice to others.
CW
CWDaughter
I recently had a knee replacement and was very anxious and in a lot of pain following discharge from hospital. Kelly managed to visit me at home at short notice and was incredibly reassuring and helpful. She’s been able to visit a number of times since and this continues to be helpful as the NHS physio appointments are infrequent. I am really grateful to Kelly for helping me through this difficult experience and I would highly recommend her. Many thanks, Julia.
J Seagar
J SeagarPatient
What a wonderful experience this was. We arranged for Kelly from Severn physiotherapy to visit my Dad after spending time in hospital to get him mobile again. Kelly was so friendly and thorough in getting to understand the problems my dad faced and then treating him for these problems. Helping him stand and helping us understand how we can help him. I really can’t praise Kelly enough. She then contacted our GP and gave recommendations for occupational therapy referrals. The cost I feel was extremely reasonable for the level of service we got from Kelly. Five star review. Fantastic
M Holden
M HoldenSon
Fantastic help getting my step-dad back on his feet and recovering after having pneumonia. Highly recommend Skye, very knowledgeable and helpful!
A Maden
A MadenDaughter
Excellent communication and pro-active ideas regarding clients specific training needs. A pleasure to work with👍
A Barnes
A Barnescolleague
Severn Physio are brilliant. My mum was just out of hospital from a serious illness; they were able to come and assess her within a few days and after her first session she sounded so much more motivated and positive. Their kindness and expertise has been central to her rehab. Many thanks, Dr Kate Hall
Dr K Hall
Dr K HallDaughter
Skye was so helpful with my knee pain and gave me simple but effective exercises to do at home. Couldn't rate her more highly.
E Wison
E Wisonpatient
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