Articles
Recording and Evidencing Equipment Impact: Turning Adaptations Into Outcomes Evidence
Equipment and adaptations only demonstrate value when their impact is clearly recorded and evidenced. This article explains how physical disability services can turn day-to-day equipment use into outcomes evidence that...
Recording and Evidencing Equipment Impact: Turn...
Equipment and adaptations only demonstrate value when their impact is clearly recorded and evidenced. This article explains how physical disability services can turn day-to-day equipment use into outcomes evidence that...
Training, Competence and Oversight in Equipment and Assistive Technology Use
Safe and effective equipment use depends on staff competence, not just availability of aids. This article explains how physical disability services can assure training, competence and oversight in equipment and...
Training, Competence and Oversight in Equipment...
Safe and effective equipment use depends on staff competence, not just availability of aids. This article explains how physical disability services can assure training, competence and oversight in equipment and...
Working With OTs, Housing and Commissioners on Equipment and Adaptations
Effective equipment provision depends on collaboration with OTs, housing teams and commissioners. This article explains how physical disability services can work effectively across systems, with operational examples and the partnership...
Working With OTs, Housing and Commissioners on ...
Effective equipment provision depends on collaboration with OTs, housing teams and commissioners. This article explains how physical disability services can work effectively across systems, with operational examples and the partnership...
Risk, Safeguarding and Equipment Use in Physical Disability Services
Equipment plays a critical role in managing risk in physical disability services but can also introduce new safeguarding concerns. This article explains how providers can balance risk, safety and independence...
Risk, Safeguarding and Equipment Use in Physica...
Equipment plays a critical role in managing risk in physical disability services but can also introduce new safeguarding concerns. This article explains how providers can balance risk, safety and independence...
Equipment Reviews and Reassessment: Preventing Dependency and Managing Change Over Time
Equipment needs change as people’s abilities, confidence and environments shift. This article explains how physical disability services can review and reassess equipment to prevent dependency and maintain independence, with operational...
Equipment Reviews and Reassessment: Preventing ...
Equipment needs change as people’s abilities, confidence and environments shift. This article explains how physical disability services can review and reassess equipment to prevent dependency and maintain independence, with operational...
Assistive Technology in Daily Support: Embedding Equipment Into Person-Centred Practice
Assistive technology only delivers value when it is embedded into daily support, not treated as an add-on. This article explains how physical disability services can integrate technology into everyday practice,...
Assistive Technology in Daily Support: Embeddin...
Assistive technology only delivers value when it is embedded into daily support, not treated as an add-on. This article explains how physical disability services can integrate technology into everyday practice,...
Home Adaptations and Accessibility: Supporting Independent Living in Physical Disability Services
Home adaptations are central to independence in physical disability services but are often poorly integrated into care planning. This article explains how providers can use adaptations to support independence, with...
Home Adaptations and Accessibility: Supporting ...
Home adaptations are central to independence in physical disability services but are often poorly integrated into care planning. This article explains how providers can use adaptations to support independence, with...
When Equipment Becomes Restrictive: Balancing Safety, Choice and Independence in Physical Disability Services
Equipment introduced for safety can quietly become restrictive in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can identify when equipment limits independence, review its use proportionately, and evidence lawful,...
When Equipment Becomes Restrictive: Balancing S...
Equipment introduced for safety can quietly become restrictive in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can identify when equipment limits independence, review its use proportionately, and evidence lawful,...
Assessing Equipment Needs in Physical Disability Support: From Referral to Review
Effective equipment provision depends on robust assessment and review. This article explains how physical disability services should assess equipment needs, with operational examples and the assessment evidence commissioners and inspectors...
Assessing Equipment Needs in Physical Disabilit...
Effective equipment provision depends on robust assessment and review. This article explains how physical disability services should assess equipment needs, with operational examples and the assessment evidence commissioners and inspectors...
Equipment as Enablement: Using Assistive Technology to Promote Independence in Physical Disability Services
Equipment and assistive technology can either enable independence or quietly restrict it. This article explains how physical disability services can use equipment as an enabler of outcomes, with operational examples...
Equipment as Enablement: Using Assistive Techno...
Equipment and assistive technology can either enable independence or quietly restrict it. This article explains how physical disability services can use equipment as an enabler of outcomes, with operational examples...