Real Time Assessment Tool for Assistive Technology

辅助技术的真实的时间评估工具是由残疾人生活组织开发的，该组织是一家慈善机构，提供有关辅助技术的支持，建议和信息，以帮助残疾成年人，儿童和老年人实现独立生活。我们的支持确保人们能够就他们可以获得的支持做出安全和经济合理的选择，促进功能能力，使老年人的健康，以及减少医院入院A & E通过福尔斯。通过我们的可行性项目，我们已经开发了一种新的方式进行评估，使用视频会议的方法，使一对一的咨询与我们的职业治疗师（OT的）以便他们能够对合适的设备进行在线评估。通过真实的时间评估工具，OT可以查看房屋中的所有房间，因此可以捕获任何风险（例如跌倒风险），并可以采取干预措施，以确保客户的安全。在正常情况下，评估工作会由职业治疗师到有关人士的家中进行，并以书面形式提交评估报告，然后再由人手处理，以决定后续行动和跟进，整个过程可能需要长达六个月。我们现已开发出一套工具原型，并已由我们的职业治疗师团队进行测试，它提供了一个平台，以确保及时向消费者提供正确的设备，从而减少对进一步健康和社会护理干预的需求，并最终帮助人们在衰老时保持健康。通过SBRI健康老龄化：扩大社会风险投资挑战，我们希望进行一项试点，将该工具整合到全科医生服务中，为那些有行动不便风险的人提供移动的职业治疗评估，以便购买合适的设备，移动商店可防止福尔斯跌倒，并提高患者的功能能力，以实现更好的生活质量，从而在他们年老时实现更好的健康。

The Real Time Assessment Tool for Assistive Technology has been developed by Disabled Living, a Charity that provides support, advice, and information about assistive technology to help disabled adults, children, and older people to achieve independent living. Our support ensures that people can make safe and economically sound choices about the support that they can receive, promotes functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age as well as reducing hospital admissions to A & E through falls.Through our feasibility project we have developed a new way of undertaking assessments using video conferencing methods that has enabled one to one consultation with our Occupational Therapists (OT's) so that they can provide an on-line assessment for suitable equipment. Through the Real Time Assessment Tool, the OT can view all rooms in the house, so any risks can be captured (such as fall risks) and interventions can be put in place to ensure that the client is safe. In normal times, the assessments would be completed by an OT visiting the individual within their homes to deliver and compile the assessment on paper which must then be processed manually to determine subsequent actions and follow up, a process that could take up to six months to complete.We have now developed a prototype of the Tool which has been tested by our team of Occupational Therapists (OT), which provides a platform to ensure that the right equipment is provided to the consumer, in a timely manner that reduces the need for further health and social care interventions and ultimately helping people to maintain their health as they age.Through the SBRI Healthy Ageing: Scaling Social Ventures challenge, we would like to carry out a pilot that integrates the Tool into GP Services to provide a Mobile Occupational Therapy Assessment to those at risk of poor mobility so that the right equipment can be purchased for Mobility Stores preventing falls and improving the functional ability of the patient to achieve a better quality of life and therefore enabling better wellbeing as they age.