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Publications
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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Table of Contents
- 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
