Caregiving for Individuals with Chronic Illness or Injury

Intensive Cross Cutting Poster

(624819) POSTER: Using the ICF to Classify and Describe the Problems Care Partner Face During Inpatient Rehabilitation

Presenting Author(s)

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  Candice Osborne, PhD, MPH, OTR

  Assistant Professor
  Univerisity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  dallas, Texas

Author(s)

• CK

  Chung Lin (Novelle) Kew, MS

  PhD Student
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas, Texas
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  Andrew Nabasny, MS

  Doctoral Student
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas, Texas
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  Shannon Juengst, PhD, CRC

  Assistant Professor
  UT Southwestern
  Dallas, Texas

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) was used to classify and describe challenges and problems that care-partners face early in the rehabilitation process. Care-partners of inpatient rehabilitation patients most commonly reported problems in the areas of emotional function, major life areas, self-care, domestic life, and interpersonal interactions and relationships.

Learning Objectives:

• understand the basic principles of the ICF linking technique
• identify common problems reported by care-partners of adults with traumatic injury/stroke
• identify the frequency and nature of the most commonly reported care-partner problems