Resources

This KeepAble guide highlights the importance of client goal setting and goal-directed activities, and provides recommendations to guide home care staff to plan support and help clients achieve their goals.

Delivering effective wellness and reablement support is the fundamental cornerstone of a successful home care service. This webpage from KeepAble provides supervisors with tips  and guidance on coaching staff in effective reablement approaches.

This information sheet from KeepAble provides examples of performing bathing and hygiene-related activities independently using simple assistive devices such as a long-handled lotion applicator and long-reach nail scissors.

This information sheet from KeepAble provides examples of performing bathing independently using simple assistive devices such as long-handled sponge and long-handled toe washer. 

This information sheet from KeepAble provides examples of performing dressing activities independently using a button hook. 

An information sheet from KeepAble that illustrates how to perform dressing activities independently using a stick. 

This webpage from KeepAble presents comprehensive information about wellness and reablement with links to videos for additional information about ageing and healthy ageing.

A range of reablement-focused e-learning modules from iLA KeepAble aimed at increasing the knowledge and skills of those working in the aged care sector. These short, interactive modules provide tips and learnings based on authentic experiences, which can be used to support older people to live independently for as long as possible.

This webpage from KeepAble presents a guide to embed wellness and reablement in home care programs based on key areas of leadership and culture, outcomes and service delivery, inclusivity, people and systems and measurement and reporting. 

This implementation guide by KeepAble  covers the elements of effective reablement, including assessment and goal-setting. This resource provides links to tips sheets and a range of other downloadable practical resources to help the home care workforce introduce a reablement approach.