| About Us | | | | PrivateOT.ie is Ireland's only online directory catering for the Healthcare Profession and the Public, providing up-to-date information on service providers, Healthcare Professionals and Suppliers of medical equipment. | | | | PrivateOT.ie is a desktop tool developed to quickly and intuitively find the services and products you are searching for. Our Design Team use advanced search engine optimisation tools to ensure that our directory enjoys maximum exposure in the Irish Healthcare Industry. | | | PrivateOT.ie provides a host of facilities for Allied Healthcare Professionals, Service Providers and Suppliers of Medical Equipment.
| | What you can expect… | | |  | Continually updated listings for all Medical Equipment Suppliers, Occupational Therapy Practitioners & Service Providers Nationwide
Listings are updated on a daily basis. This puts an end to obsolete information and out-dated contact details being attached to your business.
The nature / outline of all listings strongly supports the provisions made under the Code Of Ethics for Occupational Therapists in Ireland.(2006) |
| | | | Most informed collection of relevant Healthcare information in Ireland
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Our Newsroom provides for editorial coverage of new Services and Product Ranges. This interactive forum gives you the opportunity to further influence the content of our newsroom coverage, and your level of exposure. |
| | | | Feedback Forum
Through the feedback forum, Customer queries are forwarded directly to the relevant clients listed, through the Webmaster. Users can access the feedback forum to direct any directory based queries to the Webmaster and let the Webmaster carry out their search. By simply typing in your query, e.g. Manual Wheelchairs less than 12 kilograms in weight, or, 6 foot Portable Ramps. Your query will be passed on to the relevant members of the directory, who can then contact you directly. |
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An enhanced page is a web page designed for a particular listing where no active website is available. This enhanced page includes details of the business / Healthcare Professional, pictures and description of their services / product range.
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| | | Understanding Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is based on doing, or occupation. Occupational Therapy involves enabling individuals and groups to do the things that they need and want to do in everyday life, and assists people to develop and maintain a meaningful lifestyle.
Occupations are anything (tasks and activities) that people do.
Doing is only possible when there is a person (to do the task), a task, and the environment in which the task takes place.
Occupational Therapists intervene with:
The individual person - improving or maintaining their level of physical, cognitive (thinking), affective (emotional) and social ability.
The environment - manipulating or adapting the physical, social, cultural and institutional environment.
The task - analysing the task, comparing the demands of the task with the individual's abilities, and changing the task to make it possible for the person to do.
Occupational Therapists are based in a variety of clinical and community settings, including hospitals, rehabilitation units, schools, community health centres and people's homes. Some examples of what occupational therapists do include:
Enable people to dress themselves again after a stroke.
Improve the play and movement skills of a baby or child with a disability.
Visit a disabled or elderly person to make their home easier and safer for them to use.
Assess the driving ability of someone with a disability.
Visit work places to assist people to modify their jobs and design work areas to better suit their needs.
Help people select equipment and appliances, including wheelchairs, assistive technology and dressing aids, to increase their independence.
Working with adults with learning difficulties to improve their skills for living in the community.
Work with builders, architects and local authorities to design public places and homes that will suit people with various different abilities.
Use activities, such as crafts, gardening or cooking to improve a person's hand function.
Work with people with mental health difficulties to assist them in planning and organising a meaningful lifestyle.
Show someone with memory difficulties how to use memory aids and cues.
(information taken from the Faculty of Health Sciences, TCD - http://www.medicine.tcd.ie/occupational_therapy/aboutot)
| | | | | | Services typically include: | | | | Customized treatment programs to improve one's ability to perform daily activities
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| | Comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations
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| | Performance skills assessments and treatment
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| | Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training
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| | Guidance to family members and caregivers |
| | | | | Benefits of occupational therapy
A wide variety of people may benefit from occupational therapy, these may include people with: | | | | work-related injuries including lower back problems or repetitive strain injuries
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| | physical, cognitive or psychological limitations following a stroke, brain injury or heart attack
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| | arthritis, multiple sclerosis, or other serious chronic conditions
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| | birth injuries, learning difficulties, or developmental disabilities
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| | mental health difficulties; Dementia; Schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress
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| | substance abuse problems or eating disorders
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| | obsessive compulsions, or diagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
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| | burns, spinal cord injuries, or amputations
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| | fractures or other injuries from falls, sports injuries, or accidents |
| | visual, perceptual or cognitive impairments
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| | developmental disabilities such as autism or cerebral palsy
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| | domestic abuse issues |
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