Improving Independence and Building Individual Capacity
Pearl Home Care’s qualified professionals work with participants to apply their functional skills, help improve independence and enable participation in daily, practical activities.
Our Allied Health Professionals conduct assessments to determine functional capacity and compile reports to evidence a participant’s needs for certain therapeutic supports to be funded within their plans.
- Therapy and capacity building covers those areas that support building skills in:
- Language and communication
- Mobility and movement
- Personal care
- Interpersonal interactions
- Functioning (including psychosocial functioning)
- Community living
Our Available Allied Health Services
Pearl Home Care’s available allied healththerapy includes services delivered by professionals including:
- Art Therapists - This form of therapy is designed to utilise art as a means to treat a variety of emotional issues and to provide a sense of wellness and healing. Art therapists use a variety of arts-based techniques in their assessment and treatment of clients, including drawing, painting, sculptureand mixed media.
- Audiologists - are health care professionals who identify, assess and manage disorders of hearing, balance and other neural systems.
- Orthoptists - are trained professionals who specialise in orthoptic treatment, such as eye patches, eye exercises, prisms or glasses. They commonly work with paediatric patients and also adult patients with neurological conditions such as stroke, brain tumours or multiple sclerosis.
- Counsellors - are trained, objective professionals with whom participants can build a healing and trusting relationship. Counselling is a process of talking about and working through personal problems.
- Music Therapists - actively support people as they aim to improve their health, functioning and well-being. Music therapy can help people of all ages to manage their physical and mental health and enhance their quality of life.
- Occupational Therapists - are registered health practitioners who work with people to improve their health and wellbeing, with a focus on physical and mental health that may be related to a person's injury or illness, or to an accident or developmental impairment.
- Podiatrists - are trained in foot and lower limb health. Some podiatrists specialise in different areas of practice, including sports, children and workplace health. They can help diagnose, prevent and treat a wide range of foot injuries and conditions.
- Psychologists - are mental health professionals who use psychological evaluations and talk therapy to help people learn to better cope with life and relationship issues and mental health conditions.
- Physiotherapists - assess, diagnose, treat and work to prevent disease and disability through movement and exercise. Physiotherapists specialise in body movement and function.
- Social Workers - assess the social needs of individuals, families and groups, assist and empower people to develop and use the skills and resources needed to resolve social and other problems, and further human wellbeing and human rights, social justice and social development.
- Speech and Language Pathologists - work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.
- Developmental Educators - specialise in supporting clients develop their functional life skills (such as social skills, communication, daily-living and more), goal-setting, and physical and emotional well-being.
- Dieticians - are experts in food and nutrition. They help participants understand how what you eat can affect your health. If you are living with certain chronic conditions such as diabetes, cancer, obesity or food allergies, dietitians can help you adjust your diet to improve your health and wellbeing.
- Rehabilitation Counsellors - work within a counselling and case management framework to assist people who are experiencing disability, a health condition or social disadvantage to participate in employment or education, or to live independently and access services in the community.
