Our Occupational Therapists aid in developing plans to help seniors improve home safety and maintain the ability to remain living at home. OT’s are trained to assist with medical conditions including, but not limited to: Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Neuro Degenerative Disorders, Stroke, Post Operative Accommodations.

Occupational Therapists can treat an altered lifestyle due to physical and cognitive changes that can occur at any stage of life. Accidents, surgeries or unexpected illness can shift your ordinary level of functioning and modifications may be necessary to maintain quality of living.

Our Occupational Therapists can provide home modification assessments for seniors and persons living with disabilities. Have an OT assessment for you BC Rebate for Accessible Home Adaptations. We will assist you or a loved one through the home modification process to ensure continuity of care, quality assurance and to ensure the desired outcome is obtained. Our OT’s can: Conduct Client/Environment Assessments, Home Modification Equipment and design Recommendations, contractor and Vendor Quote Review, Construction/Equipment Installation Follow Up, Post Modification Occupancy Evaluation

Our Occupational Therapists aid in developing plans to help seniors improve home safety and maintain the ability to remain living at home. OT’s are trained to assist with medical conditions including, but not limited to: Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Neuro Degenerative Disorders, Stroke, Post Operative Accommodations.

Individual Workstation Ergonomic Evaluations include an assessment at the workstation of the employee. During the assessment, the Occupational Therapist will gather information regarding the employee’s specific needs and concerns, work tasks, work environment, as well as provide education with respect to healthy work practices, stretches and exercises for injury prevention. Adjustments that can be made to existing equipment (e.g. adjusting office equipment) are completed during the assessment. This is followed be a comprehensive, reader friendly report with recommendations listed for modifications or equipment as needed to improve function, comfort and productivity at work.

The purpose of the OT Functional Assessment is to determine the person’s current functioning (involving identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses) in all aspects of daily life and develop recommendations to alleviate identified difficulties so that the person is as independent as possible. Generally, following the functional assessment, therapy recommendations are developed that involve either enhancing the person’s skills in the areas where they are showing deficits, or amending their environment (e.g. with assistive equipment or other resources) to mitigate their difficulties. Therapy may also incorporate a combination of both approaches and usually involves the key supports for the person (e.g. parents or teachers).At the very least, OT assessments usually involve evaluating the following basic skill areas:

– Mobility and transfers
– Showering
– Dressing, grooming and hygiene
– Toileting
– Feeding/eating

If appropriate to the person’s age and social situation, the assessment may also explore the person’s skills in the areas of:

– Home maintenance (e.g. completion of household chores, gardening)
– Money management and budgeting
– Meal preparation and cooking
– Medication management
– Telephone use
– Travel and transport
– Shopping
– Laundry/washing