Occupational Therapy for Linked Care is provided by Healthy Collaboration. Healthy Collaboration provides home based Occupational Therapy
Healthy Collaboration works collaboratively with clients and their families to explore client’s issues and dreams, and provides innovative solutions to improve their engagement in their daily lives. A healthy partnership underpins service delivery.
Healthy Collaboration began in 2012 as a home-based Occupational Therapy service for DVA clients. The business has expanded to cover adults with NDIS funding and older adults over 65 with a Home Care Package.
What Healthy Collaboration offers:
- Functional Capacity Assessments and Reports for NDIS funding.
- Home assessment to identify and address issues impacting client’s performance.
- Provision of appropriate equipment or home modifications.
- Falls risk assessment aimed at assisting clients to better understand their own risk of falling so that they can plan around these risks.
- Falls risk reduction through modification of home environment, or by changing how an occupation is performed. Evidence based strategies aimed at improving clients balance are utilised.
- Linking clients to appropriate services to best meet their needs.
How Healthy Collaboration operates:
Healthy Collaboration provides a person-centred approach in the practice of Occupational Therapy with their clients. Their focus is on the care of the client rather than on the client’s disability or illness. This is achieved through getting to know their clients as people, respecting the client as the expert of their own needs, and by addressing clients’ goals. Healthy Collaboration believes that the practice of person-centred care is critical to optimising the client’s experience when improving their participation in their desired occupations.
Initial consultations are usually phone-based, followed by a visit to the client’s home for further assessment including functional observation (of clients engaging in activities that are important to them). Subsequent visits occur in the home or community as relevant to the client’s goals.
Assessment includes:
- Identification of client’s presenting issues.
- Identification of other issues impacting performance, ascertained from discussion with clients and others, and from observation of client’s ability.
- Understanding client’s broader health and social issues which may be impacting their health and well-being,
- Reviewing the home environment, with respect to the skills and abilities of the client to safely manage at home.
- Ascertaining the client’s falls risk, and their understanding of their own risk of falling.
- Working towards achievement of client’s and carer’s goals.
Possible solutions:
- Functional Capacity Assessments
- Provision of equipment at home.
- Provision of home modifications.
- Refer client to other health and ageing services.
- Referral to Linked Care Physiotherapist.
Outcomes:
- The client will be better able to engage in occupations that were previously difficult or unsafe or were avoided by the client.
- As a result of the comprehensive assessment, clients experience improvements in a broad range of occupations.
Who can access services?
Healthy Collaboration works with a range of clients with a variety of funding:
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA)
- Case Managed clients
- Chronic Disease Management clients (formerly EPC)
- Private-funded clients
Additional Services:
Caitlin provides consultancy services to health organisations in a variety of fields. She has an interest in service delivery improvement, and in improving client’s access to services.
Where Healthy Collaboration operates:
Healthy Collaboration works across numerous suburbs in the North, West and East of Melbourne, including but not limited to Alphington, Ascot Vale, Bellfield, Brunswick, Bundoora, Clifton Hill, Coburg, Fairfield, Fawkner, Fitzroy North, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Kew, Kingsbury, Northcote, Pasco Vale, Glenroy, Preston, Reservoir, Rosanna, and Richmond.
Research:
In 2012, Caitlin completed her Masters of Occupational Therapy at La Trobe University with a thesis titled “The participants’ experiences of a goals-based community rehabilitation service: the impact of using a goals menu”. Click here to download thesis.
NDIS – fees charged according to standard allied health rate.
Home Care Package and Private Funding – Please contact Caitlin for current service fees and to discuss any queries regarding locations and referral suitability.
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