Aquired Brain Injury
Peartree House specialises in providing services to people who have sustained an acquired brain injury.
The unit provides both long-term care and active rehabilitation assessment and treatment and aims to enable clients to maximise their skills and abilities. Peartree House has a superb track record and well deserved reputation of successfully providing quality of life care and tailoring personalised active rehabilitation plans for clients, which includes returning to independent community based living. Our community location enables clients to enhance their rehabilitation experience and have easy access to local amenities in the Bitterne area of Southampton.
The Grade II listed building, with recent extensions and comfortable well maintained surroundings, has been upgraded and imaginatively refurbished to an impressive high standard. There are separate recreational areas, excellent occupational therapy facilities and a well equipped physiotherapy department. Peartree House accommodates 22 clients within the main house. An adjacent fully converted house, provides additional accommodation for a further 4 persons. There is an extensive garden surrounding the house which is used for quiet relaxation by both clients and relatives.
Long term maintenance care
Our clients benefit from nursing team that operates 24 hours a day to ensure that a high standard of care is delivered. The nursing team is led by a senior nurse who has many years experience of managing teams in care homes. The clients on maintenance programmes also benefit from the input of other MDT members such as occupational therapist, psychologist and physiotherapist.
The main focus of interventions here is quality of life and prevention of deterioration.
Active rehabilitation
Peartree House is also able to offer personalised active rehabilitation plans to meet specific individual needs. Care planning meetings are arranged with each individual resulting in the design of short and long-term goal orientated care plans, which are reviewed regularly.
Following rehabilitation some individuals will continue to require multi-disciplinary support.
The Team
The Peartree Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) has significant experience working with individuals who have sustained an acquired brain injury to realise optimum rehabilitation and quality of life care.
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
Our experienced consultant is able to provide input and give an overview to ensure that the medical, therapeutic and social aspects of rehabilitation are co-ordinated in an effective manner.
Nursing
A dedicated nursing team operates 24 hours a day to ensure that a high standard of care is delivered. Working closely with our support workers, they provide interventions covering areas such as nutrition, tissue viability, dispensing medicines, monitoring general wellbeing, management of peg feeds, emotional support and ensuring each individual`s personalised care plans are implemented and up to date. The team also provides an essential link between each individual and their relatives.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy develops individual skills to cope with the normal activities of daily living - with assessment and development of cognitive and perceptual functions such as planning, sequencing and memory. An integral part of the rehabilitation process is to achieve goals and make the transition to community living. They assess an individual's physical, cognitive, behavioural and social needs following a trauma and establish an individual's potential for regaining skills in all aspects of daily living.
Physiotherapy
The physiotherapy department addresses the physical needs of each individual by maximising the ranges of movement and strength of muscles, and assists individuals in becoming independently mobile, whether they are in a wheel chair, or walking with or without a walking aid.
Speech and Language Therapy
This team works closely with the nursing staff by encouraging therapeutic activities outside specific therapy sessions, to address and improve communication and swallowing difficulties.
Dietician
Many people with brain injury have special dietary requirements and it is important that these are addressed to prevent malnutrition. On admission, all clients receive a nutrition assessment and a plan is developed to meet their nutritional requirements.
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