Journal
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
Volume 42, Issue 23, Pages 3403-3415Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2019.1592244
Keywords
Stroke; rehabilitation; community; outpatient; critical discourse analysis
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [368026]
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Introduction: Implementation of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations has improved inpatient rehabilitation. As attention is turned to the design and allocation of rehabilitation after hospitalization, examination of their implications for post-discharge rehabilitation could help optimize service planning Methods: Critical discourse analysis modeled on Alvesson and Sandberg's method of problematization was conducted to determine how the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations envision and shape post-discharge rehabilitation, and identify any tensions and potential ways to resolve them. Results: Within the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations post-discharge rehabilitation is implicitly viewed as a continuation of inpatient rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is largely envisioned as a set of biomedical procedures aimed at normalization through correction of impairment. There is potential tension between this implicit goal and the explicit goal of providing patient and family-centered care and promoting reengagement in valued activities and roles. Conclusion: An alternate vision of post-discharge rehabilitation could help resolve this tension. Post-discharge rehabilitation could be envisioned as a self-management intervention. Rather than primarily an expert-driven process of measuring impairment and applying procedures aimed at normalization, rehabilitation would be considered facilitation of self-management with the goal of reengaging in forms of participation that comprise a satisfying life.
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