Presented by: Select Rehabilitation, AJAS Premium Business Partner

This webinar training focuses on how a functional therapy approach can lead to greater outcomes for a more meaningful lifestyle. This will include evidence-based research supporting concepts such as how meaningful activities that reflect an elder’s preferences lead to greater quality of life and how functional-based therapy is more effective than impairment-based therapy.

Objectives:

1. Describe ways in which a higher functional status can lead to a more meaningful lifestyle.
2. Identify methods utilized by empowered therapists to achieve each elder’s desired functional outcome.
3. Share how therapy might focus on increasing functions in each elder’s home in their own world.
4. List functional-based therapeutic interventions that are being utilized to promote meaningful lifestyles (in place of the traditional impairment-based therapies.)
5. State the results of higher functional outcomes across different types of function per diagnostic category.

Speaker:

Lisa Milliken, MA, CCC-SLP
Education Specialist, Select Rehabilitation

Over the last 30 years, Lisa has served as a clinician, manager, vice president, consultant, compliance and education director, and is most passionate about mentoring healthcare professionals in post-acute settings. She currently provides continuing education support to therapists in over 900 post-acute sites nationwide as an Education Specialist for Select Rehabilitation. She has presented over 100 courses at the state, regional and national levels and is a recognized speaker in the areas of regulatory affairs, documentation, dementia, healthcare leadership, polypharmacy and successful aging.

She has served as the LSHA Board President, is a past member of the Council of State Association Presidents (CSAP) and now serves as ASHA’s TX State Advocate Medicare Policy (StAMP) Representative for Texas. She is a member of the TSHA Executive Council and is Chair of the Business Management Committee.  She has also recently been elected to the National Academies of Practice as a distinguished Public Policy Fellow.