Resources

Evidence suggests a multidisciplinary approach to rehabilitation tailored to the individual and based at home can improve independent activities of daily living and mobility for aged care users. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

Intensive rehabilitation involving daily physiotherapy and occupational therapy can improve mobility, function, and cognitive outcomes for community-dwelling older adults after a hip fracture. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

As people age, they often experience a decline in functional independence. This can result in difficulty performing the daily activities required to live independently. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

Preventing or reducing the incidence of falls amongst older people is complex. There is no one size fits all program that can effectively prevent or reduce falls, especially in high-risk populations such as older people. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

Rehabilitation, reablement, and restorative care interventions can be cost-effective, as they aim to reduce hospital length of stay and prevent early admission to residential aged care. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

Cognitive rehabilitation is thought to improve the capacity of older persons living with dementia to perform activities of daily living. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

Allied health interventions are used to rehabilitate, re-enable, and restore older adults to previous levels of physical function. These interventions are usually focused on enabling older adults to carry out activities of daily living. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

Despite a plethora of information on healthy ageing through reabling approaches, there continues to be an entrenched stereotype of individual ageing as an inevitable process of decline over which we have little control. Hilary O’Connell of iLA describes LiveUp—an initiative promoting early intervention to delay the decline of a person’s capacity to live or function independently.

Help sheets for careworkers to support older adults remain independent with functional tasks

In this blog, Dr Claire Gough of ARIIA describes some of the challenges in defining rehabilitation within the context of aged care and its relationship to the concepts of reablement and restorative care.