Real Time Assessment Tool for Assistive Technology

辅助技术实时评估工具是由残疾人生活组织开发的，该组织是一个慈善机构，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得到的支持做出安全和经济上合理的选择，促进老年人的功能能力，从而提高老年人的幸福感，并通过跌倒减少急症室的入院人数。通过我们的可行性项目，我们开发了一种使用视频会议方法进行评估的新方法，使我们的职业治疗师(OT)能够一对一地咨询我们的职业治疗师，以便他们能够为合适的设备提供在线评估。通过实时评估工具，OT可以查看房间内的所有房间，因此可以捕获任何风险(如跌倒风险)并进行干预，以确保客户的安全。在正常情况下，评估将由OT在其家中访问个人来完成，并将评估编排在纸上，然后必须手动处理以确定后续行动和跟进，这一过程可能需要长达六个月的时间。我们现在已经开发了该工具的原型，该工具已由我们的职业治疗师团队(OT)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，减少进一步的健康和社会护理干预的需要，并最终帮助人们在年老时保持健康。通过SBRI健康老龄化：扩展社会风险挑战我们希望开展一项试点，将该工具集成到全科医生服务中，为行动不便的人提供移动职业治疗评估，以便为移动商店购买合适的设备，防止跌倒，并提高患者的功能能力，以实现更好的生活质量，从而使他们随着年龄的增长获得更好的幸福感。

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.