Stroke Rehabilitation Services

Professional Residential Stroke Rehabilitation Services

NHS England reports that around 100,000 people experience a stroke every year, with around 50% of stroke survivors needing care and support to assist in their recovery, with a significant variation in symptoms and outcomes depending on the severity of the stroke and the overall well-being of the individual.

Our residential stroke rehabilitation teams provide dedicated, expert assistance. In-house teams of nursing and care professionals work alongside visiting occupational therapists and specialist speech and language therapists to provide comprehensive care support in a comfortable, private setting.

Understanding Types of Stroke Rehabilitation Care

Although strokes are reasonably common, each person may find that the impacts differ, dictating the types of tasks, personal care, mobility, or routines they need support with. For many, a stroke may affect their fine motor skills, ease of movement, or speech. Others report swallowing difficulties or need an extended rehabilitation plan to relearn walking patterns or to build muscle strength after a hospital stay.

Stroke rehabilitation is a specialist care service with a core aim of helping every resident gain the best possible quality of life and work towards as complete a recovery as they can make. We adopt a multi-skilled approach and expert therapeutic techniques to help patients recover physically and safeguard their psychological well-being.

Forest Healthcare’s nursing care centres provide around-the-clock support to all stroke rehabilitation residents with care plans tailored to the individual and their needs. That might mean creating a schedule where rehabilitation assistants will help with exercises and movements, offering long-term support for stroke survivors with more involved care needs, or organising a temporary stay over a few weeks while you gain confidence and feel ready to return home.

What to Expect From Stroke Rehabilitation Services

Stroke rehabilitation is always adapted to the needs and requirements of the individual. Our residents often look for private stroke rehabilitation when they are physically well enough to be discharged from a stroke unit or hospital and yet need more time to recover their mental and physical abilities.

Depending on the individual’s needs, stroke rehabilitation may include varied support services. Our nursing care centres liaise with doctors, family members, and social workers engaged in the individual’s care alongside speech and language therapists who specialise in stroke recovery.

The rehabilitation process may take several weeks or months or may require a longer-term recovery plan. We help our residents set goals and gently progress through their recovery, alongside following treatment and medication plans prescribed by healthcare professionals.

Forest Healthcare Stroke Rehabilitation Centre

We offer stroke rehabilitation across several of our outstanding-quality nursing care centres, each providing private, comfortable accommodation, access to fully qualified rehabilitation assistants and occupational therapists, and helping stroke rehabilitation residents gain as much independence as possible.The following centres all offer stroke rehabilitation care, and you are welcome to contact your closest or preferred residential care location directly to arrange a visit or discussion:

The Importance of Professional Care Support Following a Stroke 

Experiencing a stroke, or series of strokes, can be unsettling. While many people make rapid improvements over the first two or three weeks, the reality is that most stroke survivors need a much longer period over months or potentially years to achieve a greater level of recovery.

Our focus as a leading residential care provider is around personalised assistance, creating care plans and setting goals with each resident, ensuring they can progress at their pace and in a way that doesn’t exacerbate the emotional and psychological impacts of a stroke.

Stroke patients normally leave hospital under the supervision of a doctor when the medical team believes them to be clinically stable, but this is normally the first part of the journey to recovery, and many people require help to cope with the effects of a stroke and to be confident they can manage all the aspects of daily living.

The initial step is to consider the right support for the individual, ensuring the resident has psychological support and a structured care plan in place to target communication problems, brain function, losses of movement, and issues with walking or swallowing that commonly follow a stroke.

Accessing Specialist Care Services From Forest Healthcare

Forest Healthcare is a network of specialist private care homes and nursing care centres, offering high-quality care services for older adults and younger people who have experienced a medical condition such as a stroke or who have a physical disability, which means they require compassionate, respectful care.

We offer a full range of care assistance, whether for residents with long-term or progressive illnesses, adults in older age who need personal care and mobility assistance, or people recovering from a hospital stay or injury in need of shorter-term residential support.

Our care teams working within our stroke rehabilitation centres are fully qualified and offer a wealth of expertise around the stroke rehabilitation process, ensuring that all residents have the best possible therapy, emotional support and assistance to support their recovery.

You are invited to contact us at any time for further information about stroke rehabilitation or to get in touch with any of our nursing care centres that offer stroke recovery care to arrange a convenient time to visit and see the facilities and services on offer.