Specialised residential care and daily activities
Over a quarter of people with a mental handicap suffer from epilepsy. The more severe the mental handicap is, the more chance there is of epilepsy. The combination of epilepsy and a mental handicap may create extra demands and complications. These may be care needs in the area of behaviour, sleep and in general physical and mental well-being. Kempenhaeghe has the special expertise and facilities to interpret the connection between epilepsy, mental handicap and additional, sometimes serious, problems.
In the residential care for children and adults with a complex form of epilepsy and additional mental and physical handicaps this expertise may be found in the field of seizure analysis and detection, medication knowledge and side effects of the medication, risk assessment protective measures, developing independence and advice on day and night rhythms and day structure. The residential care and day activities of the sector Care & Services of Kempenhaeghe are financed by the AWBZ [Exceptional Medical Expenses Act].
The care provided under the AWBZ is characterised, as the hospital care of Kempenhaeghe, by an explicit multi-disciplinary approach. Doctors, nurses, activity counsellors and paramedics tailor the care surrounding a resident in consultation with his/her representative. Agreements are recorded in a care plan and each resident has his/her own care coordinator as direct contact. To each residential unit a neurologist of Kempenhaeghe is attached.
More information can be obtained from F. Tan, Head of the Treatment Sector Care & Services Providentia Sterksel location.
