ACCESS MOBILITY Influencing a Community ABSTRACT Amy Minnich
ACCESS MOBILITY: Influencing a Community ABSTRACT Amy Minnich, ATP & Katherine Joines, PT Tricia Catalino, PT, DSc & Yvonne Randall, Ed. D, OTR/L, FAOTA DISCUSSION q Families often have difficulty in obtaining the needed AT due to the Families and people with disabilities often have difficulty obtaining needed assistive technology (AT) due to the complexity of navigating the process, lack of financial resources, and / or inadequate professional competencies. Over 50% of survey respondents were involved in acquiring and / or evaluating individuals for mobility equipment or AT yet over 75% were not aware of any comprehensive, interdisciplinary clinic for mobility equipment or AT within the community. complexity of navigating the process, lack of financial resources, and inadequate professional competencies (Desideri et al. , 2016; Van Niekerk, Shakila, Tonsing, & Boshoff, 2018). q Families experience lengthier wait time, lack of appropriate follow-up visits, lack of maintenance and repairs, lack of accessibility, lack of coordinated care, and inefficient step process to obtain the needed equipment (Desideri et al. , 2016; Kylberg et al. , 2014; Van Niekerk et al. , 2018). q Access Mobility will be a single point of access referral system reduce wait time and encourage a reuse program as well as fill a gap to meet the GATE goals of access to high-quality and affordable assistive technology resulting in increased access to the environment and encourages engagement, resulting in improved outcomes of productivity and participation with their peers (Kylberg, et al. , 2014; Tebbutt et al. , 2016). BACKGROUND The project was a grassroots approach with an interdisciplinary team to collaborate and come up with a strategic plan for a mobility clinic. PURPOSE An environmental assessment was completed, strategic plan established for a community-based mobility clinic to reduce barriers, and future plans determined for implementation of a mobility clinic. CONCLUSIONS METHODS q Discuss environmental scan process and survey results of existing How will it affect system change? Families and people with disabilities often have difficulty in obtaining the needed AT due to the complexity of navigating the process, lack of financial resources, and inadequate professional competencies. Reduced or eliminate barriers – brought awareness to the issue to Nevada Changes in organization stand point – brought awareness that Southern Nevada needs a present rep. Lessons learned - Functionality of Southern Nevada pretty set and egocentric, SWOT and business plan is a good start for needs based. What would we have done differently? Applied for real grants. Partnered with the current UCED AT reps from the beginning. Visited a clinic such as one in California. Potential Poster presentation for AUCD community mobility and AT services q Determine effective methods to enhance the development of a community mobility clinic q Explore lessons learned during the initial phase of the process and share plans for a system change and future implementation RESULTS (in addition to graphs) q 21. 9% (16/73) of people knows about “Clinic” BUT only (5/21 = 23%) that answered about knowing “Clinics” were correct – VA, ALS, and Touro Clinic, ones not aware of are MDA clinic q Most people feel that the greatest need is cost of health care (33. 8%). q 56. 2% are involved with the processing and ordering of equipment / AT. REFERENCES Available upon request Contact: Amy Minnich – amyminnich 3@gmail. com Katherine Joines – katsptlv@gmail. com University of Nevada, Reno
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