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Occupational therapy
Following a brain injury, clients frequently need to re-learn how to complete functional tasks, or learn new ways of completing them. These difficulties can be due to physical and/or cognitive deficits.
Clients initially participate in an assessment period where standardised, non-standardised and functional tasks are used to ascertain a client’s strengths and deficits. A treatment plan is set up using every day activities as the treatment medium, keeping the client’s goals in mind. Activities are graded and adapted to challenge and motivate clients. Functional tasks used are:
- Personal care
- Domestic Activities of Daily Living
- Mobility – public transport, walking or electric wheelchair work
- Upper limb sessions
- Budget and planning
- Shopping
- Seating
Clients are encouraged to increase their ability to take responsibility for themselves and their living environment in either their allocated bedrooms or one of the graded Independent Living Units:
- Bedsits (three within the Centre)
- A flat
- Cottage (accommodation for two clients)
- Group home preparation unit
- Supported Independent living unit
- Transitional unit
A client’s journey through the various stages of increased independence is dependent on the client being able to put into practice cognitive and physical strategies, and their level of motivation and insight into continuing arrears of difficulty.
The Occupational Therapy department works closely with all departments to ensure to consistency of approach, techniques and learning.
