Wellness and reablement.
Learn about wellness and reablement. Learn how to support older people to maintain their independence, build on their strengths, and stay involved in everyday life.
Explore wellness and reablement
Discover key ideas and practical ways to use reablement in everyday support. Start with what’s most useful to you or explore them all. Select a heading below to get started.
What is reablement?
Discover what wellness and reablement mean in practice. Explore the key principles and approaches that support independence and participation in everyday life.
What is wellness and reablement?
Learn what wellness and reablement means in aged care and how this approach supports independence.
Principles of wellness and reablement
Explore the principles of wellness and reablement and how they support person-centred, strengths-based care.
Benefits for older people
Discover how reablement can support independence, choice, confidence, and participation in everyday life.
Benefits for workers and providers
Discover how reablement can support good practice, worker confidence, and better services.
Why it matters
Explore why reablement matters and how it supports better outcomes for older people and services.
What and why of reablement
Understand what reablement is, why it matters and the difference it can make in everyday life.
Health and wellbeing benefits of everyday activities
Explore how everyday activities can support physical, cognitive, emotional, and social wellbeing.
Dignity of risk
Learn how choice, dignity, independence and taking part are important in a rights-based approach to reablement.
Evidence overview
Explore the evidence behind reablement and its role in supporting independence and daily life.
Practical strategies
Explore practical reablement strategies that support independence and participation in everyday activities.
Build capacity
Explore ways to strengthen skills and abilities so older people can do more for themselves.
Adapt environment
Discover how changes to the living space can make everyday activities safer and more manageable.
Modify the task
Explore ways to change how a task is done so the person can take part.
Recommend assistive technology
Explore how assistive technology can make everyday activities easier and support independence.
Provide information
Discover how useful information can help people understand their options and make informed choices.
3 tips for implementing wellness and reablement
Explore 3 simple strategies for putting wellness and reablement into practice.
Apply in everyday care
Put reablement into practice through everyday actions, conversations, and approaches that support independence.
Language of reablement
Discover how your words can encourage ability, independence, and participation.
Everything you do for me, you take from me
Explore why doing everyday activities can help maintain skills, abilities, and independence.
Overcoming barriers
Find practical ways to address common barriers to putting wellness and reablement into practice.
Prompts and conversations
See practical examples of reablement in action and how everyday challenges can be approached differently.
Stay in the loop
Want practical resources and updates you can actually use?
Sign up for our Count Me In newsletter to receive the latest Keep Able resources, events, tools, and tips to support independence, healthy ageing, and reablement.