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Senior Step
A Guide for Adapting to Limb Loss

A resource guide for older adult amputees and their caregivers. Whether you are aging with limb loss or a new amputee, a caregiver, or a service provider, you will find something within the pages of this publication to inform, inspire or motivate you.

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» Coping With Aging and Amputation: How Changing the Way You Think Could Change Your Health

» One Step at a Time: Recovering From Limb Loss (handout)

» Getting By With a Little Help From Our Friends: Resources for Recovery (handout)

» Dealing With Grief and Depression

» Coping With Amputation: Is It Grief or Depression? (handout)

» Pain Management and the Amputee

» What You Need to Know About Pain Medications (handout)

» Alternative Pain Management Therapies (handout)

» Pain Resources

» What Happened to Your Leg, Grandma?

» When a Grandparent Loses a Limb: Helping Children Cope (handout)

» You and Your Prosthetist: Making the Relationship Count

» To Wear or Not to Wear… A Lower-Limb Prosthesis

» Older Adults Can Thrive as Prosthesis Users

» Young at Heart (handout)

» Tips for Skin and Socket Care

» Avoiding Injury: Safety Tips for Seniors With Amputations

» Before You Fall: Tips for Preventing Falls in the Home (handout)

» Assistive Devices: Restoring the Comforts of Home (handout)

» Choosing an Assisted Care Facility

» Weigh to Go: Weight Control for Amputees

» Weighing Your Options for Weight Loss (handout)

» Keep Moving: Exercises for People With Lower-Extremity Amputations (handout)

» Keep Moving: Advanced Exercises for People With Lower-Extremity Amputations

» Questions About Blood Pressure (handout)

» Vascular Disease (handout)

» Saving Your Other Limb

» Who Cares for Caregivers?

» Other Caregiver Resources

» Resources for Seniors With Limb Differences and Their Caregivers (handout)

» Caregiving Tips: Journaling

» The Special Needs of Geriatric Patients in O&P

» The Team Approach to Amputee Rehabilitation

» Annotated Bibliography

Last updated: 04/26/2008

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