Why Home Modification?

• You’re getting older and you don’t want to move into a nursing home.
• You live far away and you’re concerned about your loved one’s ability to live alone.
• Your child needs help accessing their environment safely.
• You temporarily need to modify your home environment until you recover from your illness or injury.
• You want your home to be accessible for ALL of your visitors, no matter age or ability.
• You want to increase your strength and ability.

The Therapist's Role

• Evaluate the client’s functional abilities within the environment.
• Recommendations for the following based on medical necessity and the client’s functional abilities, diagnosis, and prognosis.
• Home modifications: short-term and long-term recommendations for independence, safety, accessibility that reduce demands on caregivers.
• Design consultation: to ensure floor plans/blueprints meet the short-term and long-term needs of the client and family. Collaborate with a licensed contractor or interior designer about building and design strategies and techniques for creating attractive, barrier-free living spaces.
• Adaptive equipment: to increase safety and function and decrease construction costs.
• Accessible fixtures:
•  recommendations and placement of fixtures, such as grab bars and faucets that are functional and look great. Part of being home is feeling like home and not a hospital.
• Follow-up occupational therapy services for training of client and caregiver to ensure safe, efficient, and proper use of adaptive equipment and home modifications.