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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-05-16, Page 11Use 'Yaw Master Charge FURNITURE LTD. 235-1990 Don't Miss It Our Annual Carpet and Drapery ....„ ..... .....„... ...... Ex e ter TAKING IT EASY — Rehabilitation takes patience as Mrs. Ray Smith of Exeter knows. John Westcott is a physiotherapist with the Huron Home Care Unit. He visits Mrs. Smith twice a week to supervise the special exercise program that helps her fight arthritis. HANDY GADGET — Mrs. Ray Smith of Exeter uses one of the many gadgets that the Huron Home Care program provides to help its patients become rehabilitated. Mrs. Joy Dimond, an occupational therapist with the program is trying to teach her patient to be as in- dependent as possible. 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Huron Home Care plan keeps patients out of hospital beds With government economy measures forcing hospitals to cut costs, more and more patients find themselves sent home to recuperate on their own, This could be disastrous if it were not for Home Care prograro like the one in Huron County4 Many people assume that Home Care it merely a housekeeping service for people just out of the hospital who can't do the work themselves, But Mrs. Betty Cardno of Seaforth, Huron Home Care director, will tell you that housework is just one of many services in the program. Anyone who gets help from a homemaker must also need at least one of the ether professional services of- fered. Home Care is designed to keep people out of expensive and badly needed hospital beds and in their own home where in many cases, they recuperate more quickly. As well as homemakers, there are a physiotherapist, an occupational therapist and a V.O.N. nurse to help patients back to health. Equipment from walkers to commode chairs is available for loan ' to Home Care patients, much of it from service clubs. But More is always needed, Mrs. Cardno said. "We can in some cases replace hospital care, rather than being just an extension of it," Mrs. Cardno said. There was the case of a woman who had varicose ulcers but did not want to go into hospital. Her doctor referred her to the Home Care program and she was treated at home through V,O.N. visits and part-time help from a home maker, "We have to look at what goals the doctor and the patient have. If rehabilitation goals are there, the program can be of help," the director said. Rehabilitation is accomplished through both physlo and oc- cupational therapy. An oc- cupational therapist is on loan to the program from the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital for one day a week. A,phytio therapist works for half a week. Patients are referred to the program by their doctor. One of the patients involved in rehabilitation is Mrs. Ray Smith of Exeter. She is suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and has been in the program for six weeks. "It all helps," she said. "You can just,get so down in the dumps but this helps a lot." 1,Fie receivnreitits twice a week from John Westcott, a physiotherapist who works for Home Care every afternoon. He is trying to help her regain the use of. her limbs by a special exercise;, program. He works closely with Mrs. Joy Daymond, the occupational therapist. "I try to incorporate his exercises into Mrs. Smith's daily life," she said. "We try to teach the patients to be as independent as possible." There are all sorts of handy gadgets to help people ac- complish this. For example, Mrs. Smith can't tie shoelaces so her SHRUBS & PLANTS 12 plants per box in most varieties • peat moss • fertilizers • patio slabs featuring good selection of GERANIUMS at 75 HURON-RIDGE ACRES David Steckle & family RR 2 Zurich 565-2122 i/21 mi. amlO‘rvt stoff hIngich 'OPEN THIS SUNDAY - 8 p.m. ADAMS Hooting & Cooling • Heating Systems of All Types INSTALLED, MODERNIZED and MAINTAINED 4 • General Sheet Metal Work • Ail' Conditioning • Humidifiers • Ventilation shoes have elastic ones that don't need tying, Because of an 80 hour limit on home making services, it is sometimes difficult to help chronic or long-term cases, the director, Mrs. Cardno said. For situations like this, and for old age pensioners who need long term help while getting over an illness but do not want to go to a nursing home, homemakers can be hired privately, If the patient can't afford it, in some cases, the provincial social services department will pay. There is a great need in the County for homemakers. Mrs. Cardno's office tries to put people available for work as privately paid homemakers in touch with people who need either live-in or part-time homemaking assistance. The 35 to 40 women who work for the program have taken a six- week course at Conestoga College in Clinton to learn basic patient care, nutrition, and psychology, "I always like to find out what the family and patient expect from a homemaker," said Mrs. Cardno. "Our homemakers are supposed to provide personal care for the patient, not heavy housework." We could do with a list of good cleaning women who would be paid privately by patients who need help with it, she added. The Home Care Program has been in operation 41 Huron County since November 1971. Its headquarters are in the former Nurses' Residence across from the hospital in Clinton, Mrs, Cardno is the program's first director. Home Care is a branch of the Huron County Health Unit and is under the direction of MOH Frank Mills. Public Health nurses in Exeter, Wingham, Clinton, Seaforth and Goderich work as liaison with Home Care, assessing patients in their areas to see what services are required, Although money for it comes from the province, Mrs. Cardno says that every program is allowed to develop to suit its own community. With 40 patients being helped now, twice as many as last year, it seems that Home Care's ac- ceptance is growing and a real need is being met. • '235-2187 133 Huron St. East, Exeter MINCIIMEMERIE1 L,- 5 Camp Menesetung near Other staff members are: Bible Goderich, a project of the Huron- resource dean, Joyce Bonello, Perth Presbytery of the United Weston; craft director, Nancy Church of Canada has appointed Day, Stratford; camping and this year's camp director and nature director, John Williams, staff. Toronto; swim instructor, Holly Jordan, Brampton; sports Margie Whyte, Seaforth will be director, Jamie Richards, their new director. She has had Stratford. previous leadership experience Applications for counsellors are at the camp and has taken part in still being received for this camp, Operation Beaver in P.E.I. and There are special programs for the Crossroads project in the boys, girls, co-eds and parents Philippines. during July and August. r31--113 SMOCKING WORKSHOP 13 Mothers learn to smock Tuesday, June 11th 9;00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - $5.00 - .. s get v /ale 229-61 lit-- 131--34 —`-itEll. imr—iiti '