Equipment Prescription

Icon can advise and prescribe appropriate adaptive equipment to assist people of all ages and their carers to optimise everyday tasks in the home, school or work place. 

Icon provides the expertise to ensure that the most appropriate equipment is selected and trialled.

Correct installation and training in the use of the equipment is an integral part of our service to ensure a positive outcome.

Local collaboration with service providers provides up to date knowledge and access to equipment available for trial, hire, application to funding bodies and purchase.

 

Examples include:

• Seating and Postural Support – modified chairs and beds, pressure distributing mattresses and cushions, specialized seating systems, positioning equipment

• Mobility aids (manual and electric wheelchairs and scooters, walking frames etc)

• Manual handling and transfer aids - hoists, transfer boards, slide sheets

• Daily Living Equipment – adaptive cutlery, washing and dressing aids, shower/toilet and toileting, adapted kitchen equipment

• Recreation – sports and leisure equipment

 

Home Assessment and Modifications

Home modifications can increase safety and independence in daily tasks and routines within the home or school for all family members, carers and visitors, regardless of age or ability. These modifications can be an adaptation to a residence that increases ease of use, safety, comfort, security, and independence and can be minor or major.

 

Examples include:

• grab rails, step modifications, threshold wedges, hand-held showers, and lever taps

• ramps, stair lifts, and wheelchair accessible kitchen and bathroom designs, non-slip treatments

Icon offers a Home Assessment service to increase a client’s independence and safety. The aim of a Home Assessment is the determine areas around the home/school which may present a hazard or limit a person’s ability to function independently. The OT may recommend modifications to everyday activities to make them easier and safer, prescribe adaptive equipment or  suggest modifications to the home environment.

 

Daily Living Skills

Dressing, showering, meal preparation... the activities that comprise your daily routine can be made more achievable by identifying equipment or technology to improve accessibility; activity analysis can support development of new skill to optimise independence.