THERAPY - CAPACITY BUILDING

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Our Occupational Therapists are able to provide therapy for clients to help them achieve specific goals.  This is also called Capacity Building.

Therapy / Capacity Building involves:

• An Initial Assessment to assess your client's capacity and needs as well as to develop goals.
• Regular sessions to build skills in line with these goals.

Therapy services are usually completed in the client's home, as the environment and tools involved are a key part of successful therapy outcomes.  Occasionally therapy is performed in clinic, but is then generalise to a home or community setting.

Our Occupational Therapists use Outcome Measures, for example the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM); or the Care and Needs Scale (CANS) to review progress.  This ensures that we can adapt and  modify therapy each session to maximise benefits and minimise unnecessary therapy costs.

We recognise that sometimes regular therapy is not needed or funding for this is not available. On these occasions, our occupational therapists can complete an assessment and from there provide training or resources to the participant and/ or others involved. 

Occupational Therapy assistants can also be utilised to complete resources or therapy as clinically determined by our occupational therapists. Therapy Assistants provide therapy under the guidance of a Registered Occupational Therapist   at a reduced rate which allows funding to be stretched further.  We have Therapy Assistants available at Life InMotion.

Examples of capacity building / therapy sessions:

• Development of routines and daily organisational skills
• Upper Limb Therapy- eg. Post Stroke
• Personal care training in  dressing, toileting and showering 
• Fine and gross motor skill development
• Community Access and Safety training
• Cognitive retraining

Therapy assistants are also available to support the completion of OT goals and plans at a reduced rate!