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Occupational Therapy and physiotherapy helps people live more productive lives. It enables people with disabilities to carry out essential activities, with the aim of maintaining or improving independence. Essential activities are:

• Mananging personal care, e.g. getting to the bathroom and transferring on/off toilet
• Safe mobility around your home to enable you to prepare meals, get in/out of bed and manage steps and stairs
• Enabling an individual to take up or stay in paid or unpaid work
• Enabling your carer to care for you.

You can be referred by your GP and you will be assessed either in your own home or whilst you are in hospital. Sometimes you can attend as an outpatient. Wherever you are seen, your therapist will aim to help you achieve your optimum level of functions and mobility. This may include arranging for walking aids or other equipment or referring you to other agencies that can also assist you.

Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists play a key role in assisting with your safe discharge from hospital and may visit your home with you beforehand to check for potential problems and look at possible solutions. For example:

• Raising the height of the bed/chair so that standing is much easier if a person has stiff, painful hips and knees
• Making a home safer for getting around by the installation of hand rails and ramps.

Financially assessed Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG) may be available for major adaptations work.

For further information, contact us using the details below.