How to improve quality of life and residents’ ability to perform activities of daily living using an occupational therapist.
Prepared by: Reiti Shastri
Presented by: Wellness & Lifestyles Australia
Do you find your staff are continually experiencing difficulties with residents’ activities of daily life. Are staff unsure about what assessments are required to improve a resident’s quality of life? Unsure about adaptive equipment? Some common problems that staff or workers report:
- Not sure what adaptive equipment is available
- Staff complaining of residents’ inability to assist during daily procedures
- Staff wanting to know how to modify an environment to improve ability to perform activities of daily living
You’re not alone. According to a recent survey we conducted, most of our aged care facility members suffer from the same issues. Nearly all aged care facilities experience ongoing issues with assessment of ADL’s and understanding available interventions. Ensuring that staff are receiving adequate training and knowing when to refer to an OT can drastically effect the quality of life of a resident.
That is why Wellness & Lifestyles have created an occupational therapy in aged care e-learning module, which helps to solve these issues and problems.
What this e-learning module can do for you…
- Give you a basic understanding of occupational therapy
- Help to identify, control and manage difficulties with activities of daily living
- Improve understanding of adaptive equipment
- Improve understanding of principles of environmental modification and reducing risk of injury
- Better understanding of assessments that OT’s can perform
Included in this e-learning module is…
- Overview of occupational therapy and the individual goals that they derive
- Education about the range of assessments that OT’s perform
- Detail on principles of adaptive equipment
- Strategies on environmental modifications to improve ability to perform ADL’s and prevent injury
- Living life to its max
Who should use this e-learning module?
You should go through this online training module if you are concerned that you have not had adequate education about how OT’s work and how they can benefit persons in your care. Also, if you have just commenced as an employee at a site, new to aged care, unsure about how to assess for adaptive equipment or would like to learn more about how to improve the quality of life and ability to perform activities of daily living of people as they age.
After following some of the basic interventions and solutions in this e-learning module you will notice an immediate difference in how you view the environment in which elderly people live and will have better awareness of the potential adaptive equipment available to you. You will also have a better understanding of how to easily avoid injuries of clients and ensure that they have maximised their health and wellbeing.
Now obviously everyone will be different in terms of how OT assessments will affect their loved ones. Such as care staff in aged care facilities will encounter many different issues compared to carers in people’s homes. However the basics principles and theory behind occupational therapy applies to all care staff no matter where they look after their clients.
This e-learning module is a great way to develop a sound basis for staff to understand the work of OT’s, and enable them to better understand how adaptive equipment and environmental modifications can help people they care for cope with daily life.
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