Better Hearing & Speech Month: Integral Therapy Services For Senior Populations

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, and what a fantastic time to celebrate a great profession. Communication and swallowing interventions are integral to therapy services for senior populations. We provide diagnosis and treatment for speech, language, cognition, and voice to ensure a person can communicate effectively and as independently as possible. Additionally, with dysphagia…

OT Month: The Creative Therapy Service

Occupational therapy is one of the services we provide to the senior living communities we happily serve across the United States. Our occupational therapists work to help seniors recover or maintain the skills needed to remain as independent as possible in their daily life. Occupational therapy focuses on a wide variety of skills that seniors…

Keeping Up with Compliance: Legacy’s Best Tips

Join us in the Lounge as host Katie Holterman, M.S. CCC-SLP, BCS-S, Senior Director of Clinical Programming & Development, sits with Kathleen Dwyer, VP of Compliance, and Laura Nicholson, Director of Medicare Enrollment and Compliance, to discuss the importance of compliance within healthcare.  A quick Google search will tell you that healthcare compliance refers to the…

Chronic conditions

Bridging the Gap for Patients: Individualizing Chronic Condition Management

By: Meredith Brunk, MS, OTR/L, CDP Director of Occupational Therapy Clinical Services The statistics are startling—80% of adults 65 and older have at least one chronic disease condition. The costs are steep. It’s estimated that 86% of America’s 4 trillion dollars in healthcare costs are attributed to chronic disease. The good news is that often,…

SMILE PROGRAM 2023

The Importance of Feeling at Home: Our SMILE Program

My parents were recently in the process of choosing a new place to live and had to make an important decision—the decision whether or not to move into an assisted living community. Understandably, there were several emotions that surfaced throughout the process of deciding on this important next step.  I had an honest conversation with…

The Difference Between Hospice Care, Palliative Care, and Therapy

The Difference Between Hospice Care, Palliative Care, and Therapy

By: Mark Cifarelli, PT Director of Physical Therapy Clinical Services Therapy’s role in hospice care can be confusing due to a lack of understanding and misinformation. To provide clarity on how this all works, let’s start by talking about the difference between hospice and palliative care. Palliative care is for an individual with what is…

K. Dwyer

Legacy Healthcare Services Appoints Kathleen Dwyer as Vice President of Compliance

RALEIGH, NC—Legacy Healthcare Services, a national rehabilitation therapy, and wellness services provider in senior living communities, announced today the addition of Kathleen Dwyer as Vice President of Compliance. Dwyer brings a career of over 23 years of clinical, operational, and healthcare compliance experience to her new role with Legacy. “Every role at Legacy has an…

The Month of Gratitude: Thank You to Our Team Members

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We truly have incredible team members here at Legacy.” Join us in the Lounge as host Katie Holterman, M.S. CCC-SLP, BCS-S, Senior Director of Clinical Programming & Development, and some surprise Legacy guests join in on the conversation around some above and beyond Legacy team members….

The Recipe For Success: Cooking or Baking with Physical or Cognitive Limitations This Holiday Season

By: Meredith Brunk, MS, OTR/L, CDP Director of Occupational Therapy Clinical Services For centuries people of all ages have gathered to celebrate the holidays– to share in traditions like festive meals and giving gifts. In my family, apple crisp is a traditional food during the holidays, so everything about apple crisp makes my heart happy….

November blog

The Importance of Finding Meaningful Purpose for Treatment

I had a student named Abigail a few years back. She was fantastic! The girl knew her stuff, all the foundational knowledge engrained in her—she was smart and savvy. She understood how to work with several different speech and language impairments and knew the cause, assessment techniques, and how to create goals for her patients.   But…