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.
Whatās next?
āI 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.
āIt 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.
āI really hated therapy when I started because it wasnāt fun. It was very painful,ā Jones said. āBut 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. Iām going to dictate to it.ā
What helped was new virtual technology. It looks and feels like a game, but itās much more.