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A Study on the relation between assistive technology and independence in an occupational therapy service
Record number: 18
Last update: May 2003
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: May 2003
Type of document: Thesis
Author: Corna D
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica Milano e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 1999-2000
Year of publication: 2000
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The assistive device technology becomes more and more fundamental in a project of independent life for the persons persons with disability and old. It, but, does not have to subsist without an adequate system of supply, that it demands a careful one and it supplements assesment of the assistive device and all that that to it is bound (requirements of the customer, situation acclimatizes them, etc). This assesment must be executed from more professional figures that, every with the own competence and its instruments of job, have all the objective common to improve the quality of the life of the customer. In the assesment of the assistive devices a service of rehabilitation plays an important role in which there is competence and a team job, tu also the knowledge that in order to find, with the aid of the assistive device technology, a solution to the problems and the requirements of independence of the customer can be necessary the participation of other professional figures that does not re-enter in the rehabilitative team, tu that, collaborating with it, can guarantee a more correct assesment and supplements. A service of occupational therapy can contribute remarkablly to the realization of more corrected rehabilitative participation, and can assume an important value also in the assesment, chosen and training to the use of assistive devices for the independence. In this work I will inside describe the activation of a service of occupational therapy of a rehabilitation service: equipment and identification, formation operating local, processing of operating procedures and specific instrument of job.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The assistive device technology becomes more and more fundamental in a project of independent life for the persons persons with disability and old. It, but, does not have to subsist without an adequate system of supply, that it demands a careful one and it supplements assesment of the assistive device and all that that to it is bound (requirements of the customer, situation acclimatizes them, etc). This assesment must be executed from more professional figures that, every with the own competence and its instruments of job, have all the objective common to improve the quality of the life of the customer. In the assesment of the assistive devices a service of rehabilitation plays an important role in which there is competence and a team job, tu also the knowledge that in order to find, with the aid of the assistive device technology, a solution to the problems and the requirements of independence of the customer can be necessary the participation of other professional figures that does not re-enter in the rehabilitative team, tu that, collaborating with it, can guarantee a more correct assesment and supplements. A service of occupational therapy can contribute remarkablly to the realization of more corrected rehabilitative participation, and can assume an important value also in the assesment, chosen and training to the use of assistive devices for the independence. In this work I will inside describe the activation of a service of occupational therapy of a rehabilitation service: equipment and identification, formation operating local, processing of operating procedures and specific instrument of job.
Downladable documents:
- Tesi Corna Daniela - Corso Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia" aa 1999/2000 File format: pdf (420 KB)
