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We know that stroke is the leading cause of disability and death. Together, we can change that. Join the American Heart Association and the Montana Stroke Initiative for a series of podcasts covering acute stroke care from symptom recognition to stroke rehab and survivor support. You'll hear from trusted local and national experts on best practices in the care of stroke patients given the challenges a rural setting can provide and timely and effective treatment guidelines to help improve your stroke patient's outcomes.

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Communicating with Stroke Survivors with Aphasia

With Piper Kmetz, RN, BSN & Catherine Off, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist & Professor

Piper and Dr. Cathy Off discuss tips and resources to communicate effectively with stroke survivors with aphasia, conveying the importance of engaging in meaningful conversations that go beyond meeting basic needs. As a caregiver, practitioner, family member, or friend, this podcast gives concrete conversational tools to ensure that your conversations are inclusive and, and can help the stroke survivor progress beyond merely surviving to living an engaging life. This podcast also reinforces the importance of having speech-language pathologists as a part of the care team. SLPs offer much needed and insightful skills necessary to support language and communication in all forms and are valuable members of the stroke care team.

The following links were mentioned in the show:

National Aphasia Association: https://www.aphasia.org/
Aphasia Access: https://www.aphasiaaccess.org/
Big Sky Aphasia Program at the University of Montana: https://www.umt.edu/speech-language-hearing-occupational-sciences/dewit-ritecare-clinic/big-sky-aphasia-program/

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Stroke at Home: A Journey in Caregiving

One family's reflections on the many roles of the caregiver in a post-stroke home-care setting.

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Stroke Systems of Care: An Aerial View

Today's topic is all about strokes from a Life-flight & EMS perspective. Special guest Steve Schmid joins us to shed a little light on this conversation.

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Discussions, Decisions and Disability: Early Conversations with Your Family

Why is it important to have conversations about quality of life when you’re perfectly healthy? What do these discussions even look like? And what exact topics should be discussed? Join Piper Kmetz and Penny Clifton, stroke program nurses from Montana, in talking about Advance Directives and beyond. Start thinking about making and documenting decisions that could make a difference.

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Retreat and Refresh Stroke Camp: Changing Lives in 48 Hours

Join Piper Kmetz, stroke nurse, and Marylee Nunley, founder of “Retreat and Refresh Stroke Camp”, to discuss the importance of making a difference through creating community in stroke and caregiving.

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Mental Health Matters: Addressing Depression Post Stroke

Post stroke depression is common for the person experiencing the stroke, but we often overlook the health of the caregiver, significant other or partnership in stroke. Dr. Alex Terrill, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Associate Profession at the University of Utah, joins Montana Fast Chats to talk about depression and resilience post stroke and the idea that rehabbing the emotional brain and personal relationships holds equal importance to rehabbing the physical body.

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Stroke Care: Keeping Up in Rural Montana

Join us to hear how Thomas Price worked with interdisciplinary teams and key stakeholders at Bitterroot Health in Hamilton, MT to streamline stroke care to be able to provide national standards of stroke identification and treatment in a rural setting.

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