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Speech Therapy for Older Adults and the Medically Frail
Your ability to provide care for older adults or people with disabilities depends on knowing how to identify when they’re in pain. Elderly adults or people who are temporarily disabled sometimes can’t explain when they’re hurt or what they need, but you can help them to do so.
Family Care Services offers speech therapy services that can help your family member recover from a stroke and restore language skills.
Speech Therapy in the Comfort of Your Home
Speech therapy is a treatment that helps people with communication disorders, such as speech issues. This can have a severe negative effect on their health, safety, and ability to live a quality life. It’s important to treat speech and language issues right away. You can’t effectively help someone until you figure out why they are hurting and how to get them comfortable again.
Family Care Services provides speech therapy to help children and adults communicate in an effective manner. Speech-language pathologists evaluate your loved one’s speech to determine if he or she has a language-based disability and to create a treatment plan based on their needs.
Speech therapy isn’t just for the elderly. If you care for a stroke survivor or a child who has a speech impairment, our speech therapists can help them recover their voice by performing exercises like vowel production, voice quality, and resonance.
If your loved one has trouble regulating their breathing while speaking, struggles when responding to questions or requesting assistance, or has difficulty reading, writing, or understanding speech, you should consider speech therapy. Contact us for an in-home consultation! (Hyperlink to contact us page)
Geriatric Speech Therapy and Its Advantages
As we age, our vocal cords lose their elasticity and our muscles used in speech weaken, making consistent communication difficult. Speech Therapy is a vital tool for geriatric rehabilitation. Treatment may help resolve disorders of language, communication, and cognition.
If the older adult under your care has any type of disease or disorder like Parkinson’s, dementia, Alzheimer’s, dysphagia, or aphasia, working with a speech-language pathologist may improve their condition. Speech therapists can improve speech and swallowing processes for your loved one by evaluating and performing non-invasive treatments. These include speaker strategies, diet modifications, and feeding assessments.
A few simple exercises that can help you recover your language skills and improve your swallowing and feeding ability include opening your mouth wide and sticking your tongue out, then reaching up toward your nose and moving your tongue side-to-side inside your mouth. A kissy face promotes muscle strength and control. Brain games — Games like Solitaire or Word searches improve your visual processing skills and exercise the areas of the brain related to speech and language.
In-home Speech Therapy for Stroke Survivors
When a stroke occurs, the flow of blood to the brain is interrupted or the blood vessels around brain cells burst and spill blood into the spaces around brain cells. Over 700,000 people in the United States suffer from strokes every year. One in four stroke survivors experience speech and swallowing impairments such as aphasia and require speech therapy to recover.
Speech therapy is an integral part of rehabilitation following a stroke. It can be very helpful in helping them recover and re-learn skills. The treatment plan we create for your loved one encourages neuroplasticity in the brain. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to rewire itself and help improve language skills. Speech therapy involves repetitive activities, which help patients recover the ability to speak and communicate.
Aphasia
Aphasia is a common disorder caused by a stroke that can affect how a person speaks, reads, writes, and processes language. Aphasia can be either mild or severe and can have short or long-term complications.
Dysarthria
If your loved one’s speech sounds less clear than it used to, it may be because of a condition called dysarthria. Dysarthria weakens the muscles needed for speaking, making it hard to move the mouth, lips, and tongue, and to control breathing while speaking.
Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia affects the movement and coordination of muscles. With dyspraxia, patients have difficulty moving the muscles used for speech in the correct sequence. This can make speech inconsistent or unclear and pronunciation difficult.
Serving Community of Every Culture
At Family Care Services, we understand the unique challenges that caring for people with special health needs presents, and our highly trained caregivers provide care that respects your culture.
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Our family care services allow your loved ones to comfortably stay at home for as long as possible. Our caregivers have years of experience helping the elderly stay with their families and lead enriching social lives. We can take care of you no matter your cultural or financial needs.
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