Information for professionals
Assistive technology can:
- Support people to remain in their own homes
- Support carers in their role and provide reassurance
- Support people to get out and about in the community
- Support discharge from hospital
- Support positive risk taking
- Prevent or delay the need for further health and social care services
- Provide you with efficient and creative care solutions for people
- Promote enabling behaviour
- Assist people transitioning between services
- Assist people to regain independence
- Assist you in assessing a person’s needs
- Be used as a preventative solution
- Be introduced quickly following a diagnosis, such as dementia
- Be introduced in early childhood to promote independence and support parents.
All Warwickshire health and social care practitioners can order assistive technology. Before you can order assistive technology you must attend training. Training can be booked on the Learning Hub just search for assistive technology. Once you have completed the relevant training you will be given a PIN which will allow you to order equipment from Medequip.
Telecare service
Telecare which is monitored and provided through Warwickshire County Council is a chargeable service. People will need to have a financial assessment. The telecare service includes a rapid response service for those who do not have friends or family nearby.
Funding options
Warwickshire residents can buy their own assistive technology solutions. Direct Payments can be used to buy assistive technology. Health and social care may fund assistive technology to meet a person’s needs. The costs of assistive technology equipment vary from low cost to a much higher cost.
Information for organisations that support people in Warwickshire
We have developed assistive technology training for organisations that support people in Warwickshire which is accessed via the online Learning Hub. In the meantime, you may wish to consider:
- How assistive technology can be used within your service to maximise people’s outcomes, reduce hospital admissions and improve safety
- If your staff have an understanding of assistive technology and what is available.
- If you want to supply the people you support with information about assistive technology.
- Keeping up to date with new assistive technology equipment and services.
- How assistive technology can be used to promote enabling behaviour and positive risk taking.