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Introduction


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 approiate 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.


EEnvironmental 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 Centres Mobile centres are traveling exhibition units to promote the concept of rehabilitation and to bring rehabilitation into the community. They visit regularly scheduled sites such as public housing estates, parks and hospitals. These two mobile vans provide:
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 serviceilt-in to enable users to contact the suppliers/manufacturers for further information.