Occupational Therapy
| Contact Information | Tel: 01 235 5306 |
| How to find us | NRH Cedars Building: Level 1 |
Description of Service
Read more Occupation is any activity that a person needs to, wants to or is expected to do during the course of their everyday lives. Occupational Therapy (OT) helps people participate in everyday meaningful activities and promotes health and wellbeing, through occupation. Occupational Therapists (OTs) analyse the physical, mental and social components of an activity, and adapts the activity or the environment to suit the person’s needs. OT helps a person learn new skills with or without assistance or adaptive aids. OT programmes are goal-orientated and designed specifically to meet the unique needs of each patient through individual and, or group sessions designed to focus on physical, cognitive and behavioural rehabilitation. Interventions include personal care, home and community skills training, self-management, patient education and family training. The OT service provides comprehensive services to patients from all clinical rehabilitation programmes at the NRH, namely: Show less
Patient Information
Read more Occupational Therapy (OT) involves assessment and personalised treatment plans that enable you to become independent, return home, participate within the community and return to meaningful occupation, for example, in a home, work, college or school setting. The Occupational Therapist (OT) will work with you during your rehabilitation programme and will aim to: Show less