Life After Stroke

Living a normal life can be challenging after stroke, it cannot happen overnight. It a work in progress that takes dedication, effort, positive mindset, support etc. Life after stroke is difficult but doable and possible.

This article will help you with tips of dealing with Life after stroke, routines and adjusting to your new life while living a healthy and happy life again.

After a stroke, routine activities can be a challenge. Getting dressed, making a sandwich, doing laundry – these tasks become huge obstacles.

With the help of Coming Home Organisation(CHO): Hospital to Home Support is a registered NPO that provides intensive health care, diet, lifestyle support etc. Here are some tips and gadgets that might be helpful:

Dressing Tips for Life after stroke Survivors

• According to American Stroke Association life after stroke, even simple tasks can be daunting, especially getting dressed. Don’t lose faith — the goal is to return to your normal dressing routines as soon as you can.
• Generally, use your unaffected arm to dress the affected side first. To undress, take the garment off the unaffected side, then remove it from the affected side. Here are a few tips to get you started:
• Choose loose-fitting clothes and silky fabrics. They’re easier to slip on and off than polyester or flannel.
• Lay out your clothes before dressing.
• Dress while sitting. It’s easiest.

Shirts and jackets

• Choose coats and jackets lined with slippery fabrics like satin, silk or nylon. These are easier to put on than unlined garments.
• Opt for knits. They don’t wrinkle.
• Practice buttoning and unbuttoning with the shirt on your lap.
• Put your affected arm in the sleeve first.
• Start buttoning a shirt from the bottom.
• Button the sleeve for your strong arm before you put the shirt on. To unbutton that sleeve, grab the corner of the buttonhole with your teeth and maneuver it until the

Socks and shoes

• Sit down to put on socks and shoes. Put your foot on a footstool (or box).
• Write an “R” inside the right shoe and an “L” in the left shoe.
• Buy slip-on shoes.
• Insert Velcro closures in place of shoelaces.

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