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Rehabilitation, reablement and restorative care: Hip fracture

Intensive rehabilitation involving daily physiotherapy and occupational therapy can improve mobility, function, and cognitive outcomes for community-dwelling older adults after a hip fracture. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

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Rehabilitation, reablement and restorative care: Functional independence

As people age, they often experience a decline in functional independence. This can result in difficulty performing the daily activities required to live independently. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

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Rehabilitation, reablement and restorative care: Falls

Preventing or reducing the incidence of falls amongst older people is complex. There is no one size fits all program that can effectively prevent or reduce falls, especially in high-risk populations such as older people. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

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Rehabilitation, reablement and restorative care: Economic evaluation

Rehabilitation, reablement, and restorative care interventions can be cost-effective, as they aim to reduce hospital length of stay and prevent early admission to residential aged care. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

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Rehabilitation, reablement and restorative care: Cognitive rehabilitation

Cognitive rehabilitation is thought to improve the capacity of older persons living with dementia to perform activities of daily living. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

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Rehabilitation, reablement and restorative care: Allied health interventions

Allied health interventions are used to rehabilitate, re-enable, and restore older adults to previous levels of physical function. These interventions are usually focused on enabling older adults to carry out activities of daily living. This resource from ARIIA is a short easy-to-read summary of the research evidence.

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Helping people take control of their ageing journey

Despite a plethora of information on healthy ageing through reabling approaches, there continues to be an entrenched stereotype of individual ageing as an inevitable process of decline over which we have little control. Hilary O’Connell of iLA describes LiveUp—an initiative promoting early intervention to delay the decline of a person’s capacity to live or function independently.

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KeepAble Support worker help sheets

Help sheets for careworkers to support older adults remain independent with functional tasks

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Rehabilitation in the context of Australian aged care

In this blog, Dr Claire Gough of ARIIA describes some of the challenges in defining rehabilitation within the context of aged care and its relationship to the concepts of reablement and restorative care.

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Your guide to short term restorative care

This booklet from myagedcare explains how older people can receive support through the Short-Term Restorative Care Program.