4.5.29.4 Arrange an ADL assessment
An Activities of Daily Living (ADL Activities of daily living) assessment is carried out by an Occupational Therapist (OT Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to or are expected to do or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement .) and used by an Agent to assess a worker’s functional capacity and the necessity and appropriateness of the personal and household services requested.
Where appropriate, Agents are supported in their review of personal and household services requests by an OT assessment of the worker’s requirements as a result of their work-related An injury/disease is work related if it arose out of or in the course of employment and the scope of employment. injury and to assist workers to maximise their independence.
An Agent can arrange an ADL assessment:
- after they have reviewed information on file and consulted the Short Term Household Help Ready Reckoner or Long Term Household Help Ready Reckoner
- where requests for household help are not in line with typical expectations and a potential justification provided by the referrer or worker requires further exploration not possible without an on-site assessment.
- when a review of services is required, such as when ongoing household help is in place and the worker would likely benefit from alternative strategies to maintain independence.
- when there is a request for assistive equipment or adaptive strategies to maximise and maintain a worker’s independence in undertaking household or gardening tasks.