Aged Care

Are you or a loved one looking to maximise your independence, stay safe, overcome barriers and improve your quality of life?

Key Elements Health can help.

What We Do:

  1. We assess you within your home and social environment. We look at your abilities and any medical, age-related or functional issues you may have. We will help you identify what you need and want to be able to do.

  2. We identify what barriers may be stopping you achieving your goals. We work with you to develop a plan and set goals.

  3. We then work together on helping you overcome the barriers, so you move towards goal achievement.

Assessment & recommendations may include:

  • Alternate techniques to perform a task

  • Movement & exercise

  • Home safety assessments and falls prevention

  • Equipment for the home

  • Home modifications

  • Personal alarms

  • Manual handling assessments and recommendations

  • Mobility assessments & recommendations

  • Wheelchair assessments & recommendations

  • Seating assessments & recommendations

  • Bed assessments & recommendations

  • Support for family & family meetings

  • Support for transitioning to residential or aged care facilities

  • Support for cognitive changes

  • Sensory modulation

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FAQs

  • When trying to understand occupational therapy, people tend to get stuck on the word occupation, relating it purely to a job. Occupational therapist use the word "occupation to mean the things we do everyday, how we occupy our time. Therefore Occupational therapy is therapy for things we do everyday.

    Occupations include looking after ourselves (self cares or pADLs) such as eating, dressing, bathing, toileting etc; looking after/organising our environment (self management or iADLs) such as washing, cooking, cleaning, shopping, engaging in meaningful activity.

    Occupational therapists work with people to find ways to complete these tasks that may have become difficult after a change.

  • There is growing evidence to support nature based therapy and the benefits of physical activity and connection with nature.

    Check out Outdoor Health Australia for more information.

  • Adventure means a lot of different things to different people. What might be exciting and fun for one person might be terrifying for another. We can work with you to help you find the "just right" level of adventure you need where it is engaging and challenging for the level you are at. Reach out to discuss different options/suggestions.

    1. Referral - This usually involves receiving a referral from a support coordinator or other allied health professional

    2. Discussion - Phone call or face to face interview to determine if the services Key Elements health provides are inline with client’s needs

    3. Service agreement - If both parties agree that Key Elements Health is the right fit, then a service agreement is provided and signed.

    4. Assessment - Complete a functional capacity assessment (if required). Determine needs and goals

    5. Intervention - Get into some therapy!

We acknowledge and pay respects to the people of the Yugambeh language region of the Gold Coast and all their descendants both past and present. We also acknowledge the many Aboriginal people from other regions as well as Torres Strait and South Sea Islander people who now live in the local area and have made an important contribution to the community.

We acknowledge people with lived experience of mental ill-health and recovery and the experience of people who have been carers, families, or supporter

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