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OT services in Canberra, Queanbeyan, Wagga and Albury.
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We cannot address your urgent matters and advise to seek service elsewhere.
If you are applying for MyAgedCare or seeking ACAT assessment we cannot help until you have been accepted and have a package advised.
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A SchemeWise Occupational Therapist can complete community-based functional
assessments & reports toward your support needs & help you make
progress on YOUR goals to stay living at home.
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Our Occupational Therapy team assess and facilitate senior aged people to live up to their full potential, re-able where warranted, and enhance independence with everyday activities so they can remain in their own homes. Some examples include identifying alternative strategies to help manage self-care, domestic tasks, meal preparation and eating, or community access.
They also work with customers to achieve their goals of shopping, remaining connected with their communitiyand family, and keep living independently... promoting health and wellbeing through the support that they provide. Similarly, they support people to recovery from mental, cognitive or physical issues (such as brain injury, stroke, falls, etc) and stay safe.
Our OTs will be with you every step of the way...and can help you adapt and remain functional in your daily life as things change!
MyAgedCare may require information toward your functional requirements. The purpose of a Functional Assessment (in particular) is to recognise a person’s current capacity across all aspects of their daily life, and to understand ongoing care, support work and therapy needs which can be supported.
To access Occupational Therapy services, a Home Support Package or Home Casre Package must include funds for an Allied-Health or OT service (in particular). Depending on any assessments of your cpacity to pay, a co-paymoent for the srvice may also be necessary. SchemeWise offers its service to poeple via brokering arrangement (please ask your care coordinator to refer a service request to us), OR privately.
A report by a SchemeWise Occupational Therapist can assist people to identify the link between their any aging condition or need, and how it affects day-to-day life with an intent to minimise and reduce barriers.... and remain in their home.
The SchemeWIse OT service is provided in accordance with the MyAgedCare Code of Conduct and Charter of Rights. It is a person-centred service intended to support reablement and maintenance of functional capacity for independent life.
OT reports may include assessment on functional capacity and goal-setting to undertake any of the following activities:
⇒ Functional (physical) assessments around activities of daily life/social capacity
⇒ Sensory and/or cognitive assessments
⇒ Aids and equipment (often called Assistive Technology or 'AT' for short) for everyday living
⇒ Communication aids, devices and supports
⇒ Personal life skills 're-ablement' recommendations
⇒ Learning and/or training support (e.g. for carers)
⇒ Community engagement and social support recommendations
⇒ Mobility and scripting (e.g. sticks, scooters, wheelchairs, alarms, safety needs, etc)
⇒ Self-care and Self-management including understanding sensory, physical, mental and cognitive needs
⇒ Minor home modifications from ramps to rails and doors plus everything in between
⇒ Recommendations to enable people to stay living in their own home.
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PLEASE NOTE: SchemeWise does NOT provide vehicle modification, driving services, or major home modifications. Services are available for senior people who are in receipt of a Home Support Package or Home Care Package, in the first instance (singly or as a couple). We especially focus on people living with neurological, chronic or degenerative conditions whether lifelong or acquired (e.g. stroke or brain/spinal injury including dementia). SchemeWise can also broker with other Aged Care providers such as village or retirement facilities and may be able to assist residential providers too. Co-payment of services may be required - please ensure to discuss your particular package with us so we can assist further.
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OUR SERVICE PROCESS
We're people-focused and like to keep it simple... generally a referral form from a coordinator or for self-referral, using the contact form is all that is needed. If we require further detail to help get started, we'll reach out and let you, or your coordinator, know.
A SchemeWise representative will then meet with you and discuss your needs. The initial meeting is free-of-charge.
Once your needs are determined and agreed a service agreement will be completed with you. We usually seek these to include time for any assessments, trials, training and report-writing our OT's will need to complete. An appointment with a member of our OT team will then be booked.
Depending on your needs, either a specific MyAgedCare report (with quotes) may be issued, or a general report, on the basis of the service you received (e.g. a functional, sensory or cognitive assessment report). These are mandatory requirements toward funding particular items, and seek OT's to complete any required designs or provide the necessary advice to assess and/or progress options for you, or help MyAgedCare understand your needs for remaining safely in your home.
NOTE: Our OT's are trained and registered professionals. While SchemeWise understands a person may wish a certain piece of equipment, or a particular item, or desire a particular outcome please bear in mind our people can only recommend supports where it is DIRECTLY related to a recognised functional need (as opposed health)condition), and/or is warranted, in a person's particular circumstances (e.g. if unable to use stairs easily perhaps support rail installation). Thank you for your understanding.
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The ways Occupational Therapy can help you
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⇒ Maintain and improved Fine motor skills
⇒ Strength, coordination and gross motor skills
⇒ Attention, Concentration, Organisation
⇒ Visual Perception for reading and spelling
⇒ Self-care: dressing, eating, toileting and sleeping
⇒ Social and leisure skills
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⇒ Managing sensory / memory needs
⇒ Managing emotional regulation and safety planning
⇒ Problem-solving in daily life
⇒ Life skills and completing daily activities
⇒ Functional Capacity Assessments
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We work with yours!
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Equipment Assessments
There is a range of assistive technology available to improve safety and independence. Our team of occupational therapists are skilled in assessing and prescribing equipment of all types including:
√ Manual and Powered Wheelchairs
√ Electric Scooters & Beds
√ Mattresses & Pressure Care Equipment
√ Recliner or Lift Chairs
√ Commodes or Hoists
√ Ramps or Platforms
√ Minor Home Modifications (lighting, doors, rails, etc)
√ Technological Devices
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We work with a range of suppliers, brands and services. This enables us to consider the full range of products available and recommend or select the equipment best suited to your needs based on function, environment and cost factors. Where possible, we prefer Australian products (which assists you to access parts/equipment and obtain follow-up servicing reliably). A focus on using Australian products has certainly increased over COVID times, as this ensures access to parts and repairs without undue delay and enhances safety.
Seniors/Carers wishing to enquire about the SchemeWise OT service, can use our online contact form or call on the number below.
Aged Care Brokers and others please use the SchemeWise My Aged Care Referral Form (or reach out for discussion)
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Find out more about Occupational Therapyaaa
Victoria Better Health Channel - great summary information about Occupational Therapy across life stage needs
MyAgedCare website - Examples of how OT's can support senior Australians
Allied Health Professionals Australia - About Occupational Therapy (or learn about other professions on this page too)
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Service Disclaimer:
SchemeWise reserves its right to discuss, discern and direct its capacity for occupational therapy support within each individual's circumstances, becoming knowledgeable of their needs, and the safety in which a service can be delivered. While SchemeWise OT's can assist other services to understand your support requirements and management needs, they do not generally deliver support on a daily basis. Therapy services may only be scheduled where there is sufficent confirmed funding and within the scope of practice of each OT. People are recommended to connect with their primary care service or GP clinic where advises that a therapy service is not possible to provide.
SchemeWise occupational therapy services are especially not able to provide support and health-management in situations where a health/aging matter is acutely unstable as this would be unsafe and service monitoring is not possible. Hwoever, were an acute matter is evidenced within a service role our OT's have a professional obligation to ensure your safety and taking action to so do (for any threshold matter e.g. safety, health, etc). This includes calling for help from emergency services or others as they deem relevant - they will also inform SchemeWise management of any such issues.
SchemeWise occupational therapists can make recommendations for AT equipment if you are looking for this and only where this is considered reasonable and necessary in repsect of your Aged Care-recognised functional needs - pleae bear this in mind - this includes needing to discern between a health matter and a supported one. AT recommendations require an OT assessment and report and there may be additiioanl approvals required to obtain equipment outcomes. A lead-up booking time required for service and equipment trials to be conducted may be necessary and further bookings with third party suppliers also necessary to coordinate. The service standardly completes functional and cognitive assessments and other screening tools to help MyAgedCare or other schemes understand what may be required through a planning response to support you to remain in your home. All reports are issued on basis of our therapists professional understanding and recommendations to support you. SchemeWise will not entertain requests for equipment or supports not deemed necessary or which may otherwise cause a potential for harm, regardless of your desire for such items.
It is important you also recognise that our OT's must be safe at all times when providing a service to you - particularly at your home - which is their workplace when they come to you. Please do not smoke, have animals present, display bad behaviour such as swearing or verbal/physical aggression, and ensure your environment is tidy and clean, etc. It is preferrable unless poeple are directly there to support you, that you are able to engage freely and that the service operate, without interuption. Our OT's will not tolerate bad behaviour from you or any person's present in your home, and you should be aware of this too. They have a right to end a service immediately, at cost to you, if any issue arises and in their opinion, and are placed at any kind of undue risk (includes non-disclosure of any COVID-19 or other infectious illness on arrival). During heightened community issues (e.g. COVID or flu outbreak) a SchemeWise OT may call ahead and advice they are OK and check you and others at your home are OK too. They carry face masks and can wear these anytime - just ask.
Occassionally, if certain risks or impediments exist for you, or your occupational therapist, we may need to change a face-to-face service to teleservice/phone instead (if possible) OR may offer a temporary replacement if our service capacity is affected (any reason) OR may seek a permanent replacement if we think this is the best option for you and will advise you accordingly. Of course, you have the right to NOT take up any of these options, where advised, but if you make this choice you must bear the responsibility to ensure your health and other needs are met by self-referring to another service, a relevant health service (community health centre or hospital) or your doctor. If you have any questions we are always happy to assist. Carers can also access the Carers Gateway on 1800 422 737 or senior people can call MyAgedCare on 1800 200 422, for their other supports needs or discussions.
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