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NEWS: RESTORE Skills featured on WINK-TV (CBS, Myers, FL)

RESTORE-Skills was featured on WINK News (Fort Myers, FL). Below is an excerpt from the segment featuring a patient & two staff members from SignatureĀ HealthCARE of Port Charlotte:

New virtual therapy technology used inside nursing homes is giving patients the care they need and giving them a way to have fun too.

Sally Connelly-Jones is a fighter. A survivor. She suffered a stroke. Beat it. Got COVID-19. Beat that too.

What’s next?

ā€œI miss shopping,ā€ Connelly said.

Jones lives at nursing home Signature HealthCARE Port Charlotte in Charlotte County.

Jones told us the loneliness has been almost as bad as her stroke.

ā€œIt was the stay in your room and not go out in the hall, not go outside and breathe some fresh air,ā€ Jones said.

That stroke left her left side numb.

ā€œI really hated therapy when I started because it wasn’t fun. It was very painful,ā€ Jones said. ā€œBut you know, the more I work, the harder I got at it. And I said, you know, this is not going to say who I am. I’m going to dictate to it.ā€

What helped was new virtual technology. It looks and feels like a game, but it’s much more.

Check out the full news story HERE!

Posted in COVID-19, In the News!, News, RESTORE, Seniors, Tech.

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