Occupational Therapy

Please note that this service is not available from Stafford Borough Council.  For further information please contact Staffordshire County Council using the contact details below.

Help at Home

Occupational Therapy helps people live more productive lives. It enables people with disabilities to carry out essential activities, with the aim of maintaining or improving independence.

For further information please contact the Staffordshire County Council Website at www.staffordshire.gov.uk

Occupation means any way in which people spend their time from personal care (washing, dressing, toileting) to productivity (paid or unpaid work, housework, education); to leisure (games, sports, hobbies, social activities).

Examples of essential activities may include:

• Managing personal care, e.g. getting to the bathroom and transferring on/off toilet.
• Safe mobility around your home to enable you to prepare meals, get in/out of bed, manage the steps and stairs.
• Enabling an individual to take up or stay in paid or unpaid work.
• Enabling your carer to care for you.

OTs could help, or provide information about:

• Raising the height of the bed/chair so that standing is much easier if a person has stiff, painful hips and knees.
• Making a home safer for getting around by the installation, for instance, of hand rails and ramps.
• Reducing anxiety and helping people raise their confidence about getting around or manage their disability.
• Information on ways of obtaining appropriate support and helping people to connect to other relevant agencies.
• Assisting carers to continue to maintain their caring responsibilities.

For people able and wanting to fund their own equipment or adaptations, advice and information is available by contacting us using the details above.

Financially assessed grants may be available for major adaptations work.

For more information please contact us using the details above.