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Rehabaid's services are designed and organized based on clients' needs, rather
than compartmentalized in terms of clinical specialties/professions. A matrix
organization is adopted to allow flexibility in service delivery and to optimize
labour productivity.
Rehabaid provides a broad range of services, including:
Community-based Rehabilitation
This service adopts a problem-solving approach and provides assessments and
interventions to facilitate clients' abilities to cope with functional problems
at home, work and leisure. This service includes:
- Outpatient service
- Domiciliary service for those clients with management problems at home or those
who are home-bound and unable to travel to Rehabaid Centres to seek treatment
- Therapeutic groups
Specialized Rehabilitation
Service
It supports community-based rehabilitation, catering to clients who need
specialized rehabilitation to optimize their physical, mental and social
well-being. The
existing specialized rehabilitation service includes:(Downloadable
service brochures)
A. Wheelchair Specialty
B. Pressure Care Specialty
C. Computer Access Specialty
D. Back Care Specialty
E. Driver Rehabilitation Specialty
F. Sexual Rehabilitation Specialty
G. Cognitive Rehabilitation Specialty
H. Specialty Service for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
I. Occupational
Health and Safety (OH&S)
J. Accessibility Enhancement Specialty Service
K. Specialty Service for Post-Concussion Syndrome
L. Disability Coping Counselling
M. Environmental Advisory Services
Referral Procedure
Health care organizations or community service agencies are welcome to refer
clients to Rehabaid by using our standard referral forms. Clients who require
our services can also approach our centre staff directly for professional consultation.
Please download the
appropriate referral form :
Wellness Enhancement Service facilitates
people taking charge of their own health and promotes their lifelong
wellness through encouraging them to engage
in activities for:
- Better disease prevention and management
- Minimization of episodic occurrences
- Fitness promotion.
The scope of service includes:
i. Educational Services
to
educate HA staff, patients and the general public (including children, adults,
the elderly, and people with disabilities and
chronic illnesses) about the concept of wellness and health promotion strategies.
ii. A Wellness Enhancement Centre to:
- Provide fitness and functional assessment
- Give consultation on health promotion strategies
- Provide follow-up services and re-assessment to monitor their successfulness
in adopting health-promoting strategies
- Organise and conduct health promotion and weight management programmes for
overweight children and adults
iii. A Wellness Resource Corner, which includes:
- An exhibition unit to display home-use health promotion equipment
- A website on wellness enhancement knowledge and equipment
Educational Service
This facilitates and supports client/carer empowerment through:
Educational
workshops: organization and running of educational workshops for
health care providers and targeted members of the public on areas of concern
within the health care field, and on management issues relating to specific
disabilities.
Customized training seminars: organization and running of tailor-made training
seminars to fit individual needs of health care organizations and specific
groups of participants.
Publication of educational booklets and videos
Community exhibitions
Resource Service
Rehabaid is a pioneer in the area of assistive technology. It possesses a
high degree of expertise in the application of appropriate technology for
independent living. With back-up resources, including the largest equipment
bank in Hong Kong, and a database which is continuously being updated with
information on both local and international technical aids and suppliers,
Rehabaid is able to provide wide-ranging and specialized services relating
to the management of problems for people with disabilities. These services
include:
- Consultancy service on technical aids
- Telephone and mail enquiry service on equipment and services for people
with disabilities
- Computer database of technical aids
- Large equipment bank
- Technical Aids Assessment Loan Scheme
- Technical Aids Donation Scheme
Rehabilitation Equipment Loan Scheme
Specialized libraries
Resource
library: each Rehabaid centre holds a specialized stock of books,
journals, newsletters, articles and audio-visual programmes on
various ways of coping with disabilities.
Toy
library: with the guidance of Occupational Therapists, parents can select
and borrow toys suitable for children with disabilities.
Environmental
Advisory Service (EAS)
EAS provides a specialized architectural information and advisory service on
the environmental needs of people with disabilities. Professional architectural
staff work in close collaboration with therapists in the Centres. Services
are provided on the design and implementation of specialist building projects
where access is of utmost importance.
Mobile Centre
Mobile centre is a traveling exhibition unit to promote the concept of rehabilitation
and to bring rehabilitation into the community. The Mobile Centre visits regularly scheduled
sites such as public housing estates, parks and hospitals. The mobile
van provides:
- a display of technical aids and reference publications
- a photograph bank of technical aids for assessment and treatment of clients on site
- an on-site wheelchair maintenance and minor repair service.
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