Lester will be discharged from the nursing home in one week. He lives alone, and you have concerns regarding Lester's ability to follow through with the adaptive dressing and housekeeping techniques you have taught him during his nursing home stay. What do you and your OT department decide to do to insure that Lester will be able to follow through with the techniques you have taught him?
A)Ask his daughter to check on him every day, even though she lives an hour away.
B)Tell Lester's physician that he must have home health services to insure he follows through with dressing and housekeeping techniques.
C)Complete a home visit with Lester and have him demonstrate dressing and housekeeping techniques while you are there.
D)Tell Lester that he must stay in the nursing home another two weeks.

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To insure that Lester will be able to follow through with dressing and housekeeping techniques at home, you decide to complete a home visit. Have Lester demonstrate dressing and housekeeping techniques while you are at his home. If Lester can complete the techniques in his own surroundings, he is more likely to follow through with them once he is home for good.

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