Cost savings for commissioners
Occupational therapists provide cost savings for commissioners
Occupational therapists are health and social care professionals who are specifically and uniquely trained to address the relationship between occupation, physical and mental wellbeing. Occupational therapists work with service users to help them to regain and maintain a personally satisfying routine of everyday activities – this could include self care, leisure or work activities – that they need or want to do, in order to help people achieve their goals and live life their way.
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Occupational therapists can save money for commissioners of older people's services
Occupational therapists provide cost effective solutions for older people's care and can support older people with reablement, preventing falls, remaining safe and independent at home and public health. Occupational therapists’ training includes understanding the medical, physical and psychological impact of disability or injury, as well as rehabilitative techniques in restoring and aiding recovery. Occupational therapists are therefore pivotal in ensuring reablement services are efficient, effective, and reduce dependency (College of Occupational Therapists 2010).
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Occupational therapists enable children to participate in activities at home and in school
Occupational therapists are health and social care professionals who are specifically and uniquely trained to address the relationship between occupation, physical and mental wellbeing. They help children and young people up to 18 years of age to access education and engage in activities at home and in school. Occupational therapists are one of the few professionals to work with children across all settings - in the home, at school, and in the community - enabling children to develop their skills and increase their independence.
Occupational therapists provide cost effective solutions for mental health services
Occupational therapists work with service users to help them to regain and maintain a personally satisfying routine of everyday activities – this could include self care, leisure or work activities - that they need or want to do, in order to help people experiencing mental health problems to live life their way. By working in this way, occupational therapists can ensure service users choose health-enhancing activity and alter lifestyle habits such as smoking, diet and exercise.
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Occupational therapists support people with long term conditions
Occupational therapists are specifically and uniquely trained to emphasise the relationship between occupation, health and wellbeing. Occupational therapists work with service users to help them to regain and maintain a personally satisfying routine of everyday activities. This could include self care, leisure or work activities, that they need or want to do, in order to help people with long term conditions to live life their way.
