What is it about?
Reablement involves maintaining or improving the independence of clients through “doing with, rather than doing for”. The aim of this study is to develop a pre‐employment questionnaire to assess readiness for a reablement approach to care, so a reablement culture can be developed across an organisation.
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Why is it important?
A questionnaire based on activities of daily living (ADL), developed by the research team in consultation with a local community‐based care organisation, was completed by 166 staff members at a community‐based care organisation in Tasmania across several timepoints during and following reablement education sessions in 2018. The scores from these questionnaires were utilised to develop a questionnaire appropriate for determining readiness for reablement prior to employment within the organisation. Over a period of twelve months, a total of 407 Reablement Readiness Questionnaires were submitted by staff, indicating high levels of willingness to engage in reablement prior to and following the education sessions.
Perspectives
The questionnaire has potential benefit in recruitment of staff to community service organisations, as it can ascertain their readiness for reablement prior to beginning a variety of different roles within client care and support.
Dr Hazel Maxwell
University of Tasmania
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This page is a summary of: Determining readiness for a reablement approach to care in Australia: Development of a pre‐employment questionnaire, Health & Social Care in the Community, September 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13150.
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