Occupational Therapy support to help people build confidence, safety and independence in the kitchen.
We assess your current cooking routine, the supports available to you, and the practical barriers affecting your ability to prepare meals safely.
The Occupational Therapist will observe and discuss your current cooking routine, supports required and available, and the facilitators and barriers that impact your ability to cook.
We ensure that our understanding is specifically related to you, your style of cooking and your environment.
Kitchen assessments can support people to build practical skills, identify appropriate equipment and create safer routines for preparing meals at home.
Total Health Choice provides Occupational Therapy kitchen assessments for people who want to cook more safely and independently in their own home.
Our team can assess kitchen layout, access, equipment, routines and safety risks, then recommend practical strategies and supports based on individual goals.
Anyone who wants to cook but has identified environmental barriers to achieving this goal may be eligible for a kitchen assessment.
This includes people living with a physical, cognitive or psychosocial disability.
Recommendations may include rails, removing slip hazards such as mats, providing sufficient lighting, adapting cooking equipment such as thick-handled utensils or a kettle tipper, making the kitchen wheelchair accessible, or introducing visual aids.
When an Occupational Therapist identifies that someone is unsafe to cook in their current environment, they will trial different strategies, equipment and supports to explore ways of making cooking safer.
Where there is no practical option to make cooking safer and more accessible, the Occupational Therapist can support the person to access ready-made meals so they can continue receiving appropriate nutrition.
Our Occupational Therapists can source suppliers that hold the relevant equipment you require.
Your own suggestions and knowledge are welcomed as part of the process.
With your consent, therapists can work directly with your family or paid supports.
The therapist can spend the recommended amount of time building their capacity so they can assist you appropriately with safe kitchen routines.
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We can provide Physiotherapy or Exercise Physiology to complete a comprehensive assessment and provide ongoing therapy to build upper limb strength.
Speak with Total Health Choice about an Occupational Therapy kitchen assessment, practical strategies and equipment support.
