Geriatric occupational therapy
Geriatric occupational therapy deals with conditions caused by the ageing process that restrict daily life. Our aim is to preserve the greatest possible independence and quality of life.
Fall Prevention
Balance and strength training, and advice on adapting your home.
More on this: Fall prevention
Preserving Daily Functions
Targeted practice of everyday routines (eating, dressing, personal care).
More on this: Dementia at home
Assistive Devices Consultation
Assessing assistive devices and showing you how to use them, so that you stay independent.
More on this: Assistive devices in daily life
Home-Based Treatment
We also come to your home if the journey to the practice is difficult for you.
More on this: Occupational therapy at home
Knowledge
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Plainly written specialist articles on the questions we are asked most often in this speciality.
Adapting a home for later life: what works without building
Most homes are built for a life in which you get up quickly and have both hands free. When a restriction comes along, many people think first of building work, although the greater part of the effect arises before the first drilled hole, through rearranging, light and a few fitted aids.
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Assistive devices in daily life: what really helps
A device does not help because it is well meant, but because it sits in the right place and because somebody has shown how to use it. Experience suggests that a considerable share of the devices handed out are no longer used after some months, because people lean too heavily on the object they were given and their own initiative falls away. This text says which ones bring most in daily life, what matters when they are introduced, and who pays for them in Switzerland.
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Dementia at home: shaping the day so that it works
Most people with dementia live at home, and almost always somebody in the family looks after them. What carries the day is not exercises but a day that repeats itself, and a home that says of its own accord where things are. Occupational therapy does not halt the course of the illness; it works on what succeeds today.
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Fall prevention: five things you can change today
Most falls in later life do not happen on ice but on level ground in your own home. Five places are involved almost every time, and all five can be dealt with in an afternoon, without building work.
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When parents no longer manage on their own: how you notice
It rarely begins with an event. It begins with small things that take more and more effort: the paperwork that piles up, or the cooking that has become tiring. This text says which abilities can decline in which order, what is worth having assessed and how to talk about it without taking over.
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