Here’s how Occupational Therapy Brisbane may help you. Yes, Telehealth or online OT is also available.
Overwhelmed By The Prospect Of A Modification?
It’s clear there’s a lot of information out there. From formal standards and guides to the community forum with “well meaning” solutions on what you can do to modify your bathroom, toilet, stairs etc.
Sometimes it’s hard to interpret all this and how this may apply to your situation at your house.
To help you make a start, we’ve put together this “home modification resource” page to support you. Whether you’re;
Looking for Brisbane based NDIS home modifications provider
After some basic information as you’re starting out
Looking to support your parents or senior clients
Living with a neurological condition and you want to design a home for life
When we work with someone, we’ll ask them to consider what their goals for their house. For example, “What is it you want to do and how will this be achieved by a complex home modification”
Here’s helpful questions to ask yourself so you can get better clarity.
How Does Your Home Impact Your Life?
Does your home help or hinder your independence?
Is it a threat to your safety?
Does it support the lifestyle and quality of life you desire?
Does it support your needs today and in times of increased care, tomorrow?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we encourage you to read on and learn how a home modification may help you.
“With the availability of NDIS Home Modification Providers and Home Aged Care support programs, Occupational Therapy (or OT for short) home mods services are in demand to provide personalised, evidence based, advice to help people modify their home. So you can live an independent life.”
– David Norris
Why You’re Likely To Do A Home Modification?
A person may likely consider modifying their home when faced with these common problems:
An increase in your care needs means that the home is no longer safe and supportive to meet your needs.
People facing the changes with a neurodegenerative condition want to “future proof their home” or achieve a “forever home” so that it supports independence today and care tomorrow.
Home modifications can help carers perform their roles efficiently and safely so your risk of injury is reduced.
Others may want to understand what their options are and are seeking answers to: "Could we do this?, Is this an option."
Wherever you’re at, a change in your life may now mean your home is no longer an easy place to be, to live.
It may now pose today or tomorrow a threat to your safety, performance, happiness, comfort, your energy, the ease of living at home.
Occupational therapists are equipped to help people improve the fit of their home to their needs today as well as tomorrow.
Here’s How Occupational Therapy Home Modifications In Brisbane May Help You
At Occupational Therapy Brisbane our goal is to deliver valuable information and advice to help solve your home modification requirements so you can have a home to meet your goals.
You might be thinking, doesn’t an architect do this?
Good question, what an OT does, that your architect can’t do, is form a deep understanding of your functional needs, that is, what are your strengths and limitations to perform the life activities in your home.
This takes into consideration your health conditions, your muscle strength, cognition, visual perception and acuity to name a few.
Not only that, an Occupational Therapist can develop a clinical opinion of what are your requirements into the future. At Occupational Therapy Brisbane we work with architects and other contractors to design home modifications solutions.
A good home modification can provide support for a variety of situations, such as:
Difficulties arising from conditions like MND, TBI, MS, Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease for example.
Here's What You Should Expect From NDIS Home Modification Providers
Your Occupational Therapist will work with you across the Occupational Therapy evidence based 4 Phases Of The Home Modification Process. This includes:
Explore
During the first consultation your OT will complete a OT home assessment. They will explore and discover your vision and needs you have about living at home.
Your OT will assess your current and future requirements including your goals, equipment use and potentially care needs
How you intend to use your home environment
Establish an understanding of the technical and structural aspects of the home environment often in consultation with a suitable builder
Identify
Your OT will outline functional design solutions. This may also include prescribing the use of a range of products, finishes, lighting and layouts for example.
Connect
We’ll work with you and your nominated licensed builder and other team members during the pre modification, construction and post construction phase of work. This is to make sure that the OT recommendations are efficiently implemented
Our focus is to support the builder/ trades-person should they have technical questions regarding finishes or dimensions related to your home modification recommendations
Review
You’re now living in your home, we want to make sure that it has fulfilled the promise and purpose that was established at the beginning. So in the last phase we want to make sure it achieved your goals and exceeded your expectations.
Why Work With An Occupational Therapist?
Therapists are trained to assess and prescribe solutions to support aging-in-place and for people living with disabilities. An NDIS OT,
Can take the guesswork out of accessibility.
OT’s are aware how debilitating conditions, chronic disease and aging can affect your ability to live in your home. OT’s will help to ensure home modifications work now and in the future.
The Common Modification Requests We Complete
We can help you remodel any area of your home.
Below are listed some of the main types of remodeling and ageing and NDIS home modifications we can help you with
Bathroom Modifications
Exterior Pathways
Home Automation and AT
Home Accessibility- stairs and lifts
Kitchen modifications to improve use and access
Common areas
External areas
Lighting and switch accessibility.
Wherever you’re at, be it you need a NDIS bathroom modification or are facing a change in your life. It’s likely your home is no longer an easy place to be and to live in. We’d like to help.
It may now pose today or tomorrow a threat to your safety, performance, happiness, comfort, your energy, the ease of living at home.
Occupational therapists are equipped to help people improve the fit of their home to their needs today as well as tomorrow.
What Are The Cost of NDIS Home Modification Providers and Overall Build?
Firstly, and most importantly, this depends entirely on the scale of the home modifications required to achieve for your goals.
Lastly, there are a number of programs we work within that help subsidise the cost. We’re a registered NDIS Home Modifications provider and able to support people who wish to use NIISQ, Aged Care At Home, Insurance and Medicare programs as well as privately (self funded).
Please call us to discuss your needs and we can advise you of a suitable quote.
Please fill out the short form below and tell us how can we best help you? One of our team members will reach out when it comes through.
Here’s a list of home modifications resources which may be of assistance to you.
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