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Table 1 Professional groups and roles in the rehabilitation program

From: Participants’, caregivers’, and professionals’ experiences with a group-based rehabilitation program for Huntington’s disease: a qualitative study

Professional group

Role

Physician/neurologist

• Individual medical assessment at the beginning and the end of each stay

Nurses

• Coordination, observation and assistance to patients with impaired cognitive function or problems with ADL function

Physical therapist

• Focus on improvement of balance and gait function

 

• Individually tailored training program based on each patient’s problems/strengths

 

• Daily individual training for each patient, assisted by training assistants

 

• Daily group activities such as training in groups in the gym and/or in a pool

Occupational therapist

• Focus on training of ADL, cognitive function, fine motor exercises and assessment of the need for assistive devices

 

• Daily individual follow-up or group activities

Speech therapist

• Individual follow-up and group activities at least three times a week

Dietician

• Individual follow-up of patients’ with swallowing difficulties or low BMI

Social worker

• Individual counselling

 

• Initiating processes of establishing an individual care plan

Psychologist

• Individual assessment and counselling