Real Time Assessment Tool for Assistive Technology

残障生活提供有关辅助技术的支持，建议和信息，以帮助残疾成人，儿童和老年人实现独立生活，这项服务的核心是失禁支持和帮助人们选择正确的设备，使其安全。我们还开通了一条向公众开放的帮助热线，这样他们就可以对可用的设备做出正确的选择，帮助他们实现更好的生活质量。我们的支持确保人们能够做出安全和经济合理的选择，选择他们可以得到的支持，并减少因跌倒而住院的急症室。通过与我们的受益人、工作人员和志愿者的协商，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）能够进行一对一的咨询，以便他们能够为合适的设备提供在线评估。通过应用程序，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安全，我们还可以通过应用程序演示设备并确保其安装正确，将客户置于评估的核心。我们与客户和他们的家人密切合作，他们在设计和功能上都是不可或缺的，以确保它能满足他们的需求。我们已向“健康老龄化挑战”基金提出申请，测试“实时评估工具”的可行性，以确保通过虚拟评估工具更有效地进行OT评估，并与房屋协会共享这些数据，以便实施适应措施和辅助技术，使个人能够更快地回到家中，减少住院时间，降低成本，减少每个人的焦虑。我们将与房屋协会、其居民和商业设备供应商合作，进一步开发“实时评估工具”，以便；a)可以快速进行OT评估；B)合作伙伴之间可以共享数据，以便更快地完成适应；c)引入其他评估领域，以提高健康预期寿命，减少健康和护理需求，使未来的老年人能够更长时间地享受更大的健康和福祉。

Disabled Living provides support, advice and information about assistive technology to help disabled adults, children and older people to achieve independent living, core to this service is incontinence support and assistance for people choosing the right equipment so that it is safe. We also run a helpline which is open to the public so that they can make the right choices about equipment that is available to help the achieve a better quality of life. Our support ensures that people can make safe and economically sound choices about the support that they can receive as well as reducing hospital admissions to A & E through falls.Through consultation with our beneficiaries, staff, and volunteers we have developed a new way of undertaking assessments using video conferencing methods that has enabled one to one consultations with our Occupational Therapists (OT's) so that they can provide an on-line assessment for suitable equipment. Through the app, 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, we can also demonstrate equipment through the app and ensure that it is installed correctly, putting the client at the heart of the assessment. We have worked closely with our clients and their families who have been integral in the design and functionality of the process to ensure that it responds to their needs.We have applied to the Healthy Ageing Challenge fund to test the feasibility of the 'Real Time Assessment Tool' to ensure that OT assessments can be carried out more effectively through a virtual assessment tool and enable the sharing of this data with Housing Associations so that adaptations and assistive technology can be put in place so that the individual can return to their home more rapidly, reducing hospital in stays, cost and anxiety for everyone involved.We will work with Housing Associations, their residents and commercial equipment providers to further develop the 'Real Time Assessment Tool' so that; a) OT assessments can be carried out quickly; b) that data can be shared between partners so adaptations can be completed more rapidly; and c) introduce other areas of assessments to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health and care needs to enable tomorrow's older people to enjoy greater health and wellbeing for longer.