In an effort to help meet the needs of seniors in the greater Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles Jewish Home, Reseda, Calif, has added short-term rehabilitative care to its family of services. Now open for community admissions, the Ida Kayne Transitional Care Unit (TCU) is designed to help seniors successfully transition back to daily life after an illness, accident, or hospital stay by providing physical, occupational, and speech therapies. Located in the Mark Taper Building at the Home’s Grancell Village campus in Reseda, the Ida Kayne TCU welcomes individuals 55 and over. Average length of stay is 2 to 6 weeks, though longer stays of up to 90 days are possible.

The facility’s interdisciplinary team approach to recovery and wellness combines onsite medical care, prescribed therapies, personal coaching and counseling, and nutrition. Treatment at the Ida Kayne TCU includes:

— joint replacement rehabilitation
— stroke and neurological rehabilitation
— orthopedic post-hospitalization care
— post-medical and post-surgical recovery
— adaptive equipment instruction and conditioning.

The Home’s efforts to offer short-term rehabilitative care helps to fill a community void.

Founded in 1912, the Home is a multilevel senior-living community, and the largest single-source provider of senior housing in Los Angeles, according to the Home. In total, the Home annually serves more than 1,700 seniors through its continuum of services. Each year, more than 1,200 women and men are cared for in-residence on two village campuses, with services including independent-living "Neighborhood Home" accommodations, residential care, skilled nursing care, acute psychiatric care, and Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care.

[Source: Los Angeles Jewish Home]