Post discharge use of bathing equipment prescribed by occupational therapists: What lessons to be learned?

Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 47-63

  Wielandt, Trish ^a   McKenna, Kryss ^a   Tooth, Leigh ^a   Strong, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bathing equipment; Equipment use; Occupational therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATH; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0035734546     PISSN: 02703181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. The use and effectiveness of assistive devices possessed by patients seen in home care
2. Rehabilitation engineering service evaluation: A follow-up survey of device effectiveness and patient acceptance
3. Evaluation of aids and equipment for bath and toilet
4. Evaluation of aids and equipment for the bath: II A possible solution to the problem
5. Usage and effectiveness of rails, bathing and toileting aids
6. Patient and family teaching with spinal cord injured patient
7. Measuring the relationship of assistive technology use, functional status over time and consumer-therapist perceptions of ATs
8. A post-discharge study on the use of assistive devices
9. Upper extremity assistive devices: Assessment of use by spinal cord injured patients with quadriplegia
10. The utilization of assistive devices by patients discharged from an acute rehabilitation setting
11. Aids and adaptations for the elderly at home: Underprovided, underused and undermaintained
12. Factors predicting assistive device use in the home by older persons following rehabilitation
13. Methodology and initial findings in a follow up study of spinal cord dysfunction
14. Use of aids during the first three months after total hip replacement
15. Use of aids following total hip replacement
16. Supply and use of aids and appliances
17. A reappraisal of braces and other mechanical aids in patients with a spinal cord dysfunction
18. Facilitating adult learning in occupational therapy patient education programs
19. Survey of appropriate provision and usage of prescribed equipment-the client's perspective
20. Provision of assistive equipment for handicapped persons
21. Assistive devices: Utilization by children
22. Comparison of assistive devices use and needs of home based older persons with different impairments
23. Corset supply and the Hastings corset shop
24. In community practice
25. Bathing for older people with disabilities
26. Adaptive equipment: A study of utilization after hospital discharge
27. Predictors of assistive technology abandonment
28. Client centred assessment
29. To bath or not to bath? A joint initiative to resolve the problem of increasing demand for bath assessment Part 2
30. Adaptive equipment used in the rehabilitation of hip arthroplasty patients
31. Bath aids-their use by a multi-diagnostic group of patients
32. A client centred model for equipment prescription (client's values and roles, effective use of adaptive equipment)
33. Aids - Who uses them?
34. Evaluation of aids and equipment for bathing, survey II
35. Adaptive equipment: Its effectiveness for people with chronic lower back pain
36. Compliance with prescribed adaptive equipment: A literature review
37. Independent dressing after spinal cord injury: A functional time evaluation