Wellness and Reablement Fundamentals for Support Workers.
Practical resources to help you use wellness and reablement in your everyday work with older people.
Explore reablement fundamentals
Discover the key ideas and practical approaches that underpin wellness and reablement. Start with what’s most useful to you, or explore them all. Click a heading below.
What is reablement?
Explore what wellness and reablement mean in practice, including the key principles and approaches that support independence and participation in everyday life.
What is wellness and reablement?
Explore what reablement means and how it supports independence, choice and everyday participation.
Principles of wellness and reablement
Explore the principles that guide wellness and reablement and support person-centred, strengths-based practice.
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, confident workers and better service delivery.
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.
Introduction to LifeCurve
Discover how LifeCurve connects everyday abilities with staying independent and active for longer.
Dignity of risk
Explore how choice, dignity, autonomy and participation underpin a rights-based approach to reablement.
Evidence overview
Explore the evidence behind reablement and its role in supporting independence and everyday functioning.
Practical strategies
Explore practical reablement strategies that support independence and participation in everyday activities.
5 reablement strategies
Discover five practical strategies for bringing a reablement approach into everyday support.
Build capacity
Explore ways to strengthen skills and abilities so older people can do more for themselves.
Adapt environment
Discover how changes to the environment can make everyday activities easier, safer and more manageable.
Modify the task
Explore ways to change how a task is done to support independence and participation.
Recommend Assistive Technology
Explore how assistive technology can make everyday activities easier and support greater independence.
Provide information
Discover how the right information can support informed choices, confidence and greater independence.
Apply what you've learnt
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 yourself 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.
When you're ready, explore Assistive technology
After exploring Wellness and Reablement Fundamentals, you may also find our Assistive Technology resources useful for Support Workers.
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