Seniors
Occupational Therapy
Making everyday life easier
Our Occupational Therapists (OT’s) can support you to be more independent with your everyday activities, such as as cooking, gardening & personal care. We are experts in recommending & showing you how to use assistive equipment & technologies that will enhance your life.
Our Occupational Therapists can:
- Assess & modify your home to improve safety & independence, including prescribing grabrails, step modifications and ramps.
- Assist you to regain your abilities and independence following life events such as hip replacement or stroke
- Prescribe & teach you how to use assistive technologies
- Assess your current abilities and develop a program with you to increase your current skills.
- Assist you to access pieces of equipment to assist you with home mobility and function using government funding schemes.
- Assist you to implement home Falls Prevention Strategies
We can visit you in your home, workplace or see you at our Allied Health & Wellbeing Centre at the CLS Community Hub.
We accept referrals from GPs or other health professionals as well as private referrals.
Occupational therapist services may be partly or fully covered by:
- Medicare, through a Chronic Disease Management Plan
- Private Health Insurance - Contact your insurer for more information
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs
All of our Occupational Therapists are registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
1300 257 753