About The Right Turn
The Right Turn offers driver rehabilitation, home modification evaluations/environmental assessments, and traditional OT services. Driver rehabilitation assesses the person’s ability to safely return to driving after a medical changed or cognitive impairment. Home modifications evaluations provide a detailed assessment of the person’s environment, how he/she performs basic self-care and homemaking tasks in the environment, and modifications needed to ensure the person safely ages in the home.
About Keisha Jennings-Eakin
Keisha Jennings-Eakin, MSOT/L, ECHM, DRS, is an occupational therapist who specializes in driver safety for experienced drivers. Keisha also specializes in home modifications and home safety evaluations for seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, and caregivers of disabled individuals. Keisha Jennings-Eakin has numerous years of combined experience in a wide range of settings, including hospitals, home care, acute rehab centers, driver rehab clinics, and nursing homes. She has experience working with local nonprofits and government agencies to provide exceptional occupational therapy based “aging in place” services. Her passion is assisting low-income seniors and veterans with maintaining independence in their homes and communities.
Keisha offers:
15+ years of experience with clients suffering from various physical and cognitive impairments
Lecturer and educator
A holistic approach to “aging in place”
Collaborations with local nonprofits to provide financial assistance to offset the cost of “aging in place” services
Extensive grant writing experience for small businesses, clients, and federal funded programs
Driving Rehabilitation Experience
Keisha partnered with Baker Driving Rehabilitation to gain experience and knowledge with clinical and behind-the-wheel training for clients with various physical and cognitive deficits. She attended Adaptive Mobility Service Inc.’s extensive training for driver rehabilitation. Keisha is also a certified CarFit technician and has participated in multiple CarFit events in Baltimore and Harford counties. She has organized two CarFit events, one at MacPhail’s Senior Center and another at Brightview’s Independent Living Facility in Perry Hall, MD. CarFit ensures that a person’s vehicle is the right fit for them.
Keisha offers:
8+ years of experience in driving rehabilitation
Extensive Training with Susie Touchinsky’s Adaptive Mobility Service, Inc.
CarFit Instructor
Home Modification Experience
Helping seniors and those with disabilities “age in place” has been a passion of Keisha Jennings-Eakin for years. She partnered with Habitat for Humanity’s Capable program to provide low-income seniors with home safety evaluations and modification recommendations to ensure safety and independence. Keisha participated in USC’s School of Gerontology’s home modifications certification program which provided the knowledge and resources to assist seniors and those with disabilities who wish to “age in place” (i.e., state/federal funding programs, tax credits, obtaining assistive technology, ethics, etc.).
Keisha offers:
An Executive Certificate in Home Modifications
5+ years of experience working in home modifications
3+ years’ experience work with Habitat for Humanity’s Capable Program, which provides home modifications to low-income seniors
2+ years working with local government agencies promoting occupational therapy-based home modifications programs
Keisha uses her experiences and training in occupational therapy driving rehabilitation, and home modifications to live out her mission of providing exceptional care for those in need of “aging in place” services.
