Home Health Therapy: PT/OT Home Exercise Programs

Finding home exercise programs is easy for super fit people, but the content for home Physical Therapy (PT) and especially home Occupational Therapy (OT) are harder to come by.

5 Things I Didn't Learn in Physical Therapy School

This piece was suggested to Ankota by a therapy customer and we thought our other therapy customers might appreciate seeing it. We've run other pieces from PutMeBackTogether.com and recommend the site[...]

6 Lessons for Home Health Care from Fifty Shades of Gray?!?

Maybe you don't want to give a copy of Fifty Shades of Gray to your elderly home care patients, but you might just learn some valuable things from the block-buster novel. If you are a physical therapi[...]

21 Points That Make for Good Clinicians in Post Acute Care

I ran across this post on LinkedIn and thought I'd share it right away, from Angela Gentile, of Gerontology Professionals of Canada. Angelina begins with a few thoughts about bedside manner, and follo[...]

The Easiest Way To Prioritize - NOW.

Making Technology Simple for Seniors

Pointer Ware caught my eye as a terrific bridge to connect seniors with technology, and I thought I would share it along with a few comments about why this type of technology is so important.  Take a [...]

Eliminate work that wastes time - A home health therapy case study

Last week at the NAHC Financial Managers Conference, Ankota's CEO Will Hicklen spoke about productivity in home care businesses.  The key point that resonated the most with home care leaders was the i[...]

Home Health Care Paradigm Change: A New Dream (by Ginny Kenyon)

One of the industry experts I learn from every time we speak is Ginny Kenyon, principal at Kenyon Home Care Consulting.  Ginny helps open home care agencies and has given Ankota great inputs on our so[...]

Don't Let Being a Home Care Exec Melt You Down

Home Health Prediction: 2011 will be the Year of Therapy

Nobody would argue that therapy services (physical occupational and speech therapy) are a crucial aspect of home health care.  But in the past, therapy services have been somewhat under the radar scre[...]