Living independently in your own home
If you are finding it difficult to carry out activities of daily living (cooking, dressing, toileting, bathing etc) in your home or activities in the community due to physical difficulties, Occupational Therapy may be able to assist you.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy aims to find ways to support you so that you can live independently in your own home. We will work with you to look at ways to increase your independence through rehabilitation techniques and practicing how to carry out tasks in a different way. We may also identify a more suitable layout to your home to simplify tasks.
Once we have explored these options and if you still require support to carry out tasks we may look at equipment and adaptations to enable independence at home.
Making requests for an Occupational Therapy assessments
IMPORTANT: Before making a request for an Occupational Therapy Assessment please look at our guidance section on what we can and cannot provide. This also ensures that you seek support from the right place.
Option 1: Health / Social Care Professional Referral
- If you are a health and social care professional and would like to make a referral for a client/patient you are currently working with please complete this referral form and send to: requestforassistance@eastlothian.gov.uk
Option 2: Self Referral
- If you or someone you care for would like to discuss whether Community Occupational Therapy may be able to provide advice, signpost you or assess you at home. Please contact the Occupational Therapy team on our self-referral line
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Call: 0300 3690 680 and select option 2 for all requests for Occupational Therapy intervention.
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Want to speak to someone?
Select option 2 for all requests for Occupational Therapy.