Daily Living Aids and Mobility Aids
Wheeled walking aids in the spotlight
Find out about the guidelines, subsidy funding levels and SOA products at MASS. Refresh your knowledge base on the different features of wheeled walking aids and how some hidden anomalies may cause issues for your clients. Our guest presenter, Jim Shen, a product design engineer, will also share his insights into the design and functionality of rollators and provide information on his current research study.
Wheeling Well
Explores considerations of person-centred prescriptions of manual and PowerDrive wheelchairs with reference to wheelchairs on the MASS SOA. Seating dimensions, leg rests and wheel positions will be discussed in relation to people with differing presentations e.g. neurological conditions, lower limb amputations, obesity and multiple chronic conditions.
Essential Measurements - Measuring the person
How to complete a postural assessment for a seated mobility device and measure a user to ensure appropriate fit of wheelchairs and other seated mobility devices.
Essential Measurements - Ordering the right size and set up
How to measure for wheelchairs and cushions, with more on essential checks to fit a wheeled walker, transfer bench, mobile shower commode, mattress or overlay, or a hoist and sling to the user(s) and their home.
Will this wheelchair be fit for purpose - Posture and function
Will this wheelchair be fit for purpose - Posture and function slides (PDF 2350 kB)
Seat heights for posture/stability, and for propulsion and transfers ; Ordering the right legrest for posture, pressure redistribution and environment access; Ordering the right profile and height of backrest, adjusting back height, or choosing a custom back height
Will this wheelchair fit - Seat width and depth considerations
Will this wheelchair fit - Seat width and depth considerations slides (PDF 2027 kB)
Pelvic position, growth and weight gain – the impact on seat depth and width; How to measure the wheelchair user’s sitting width and depth; Translating user measurements to a wheelchair size; What went wrong with chairs that did not fit on delivery
Top tips for choosing a wheelchair
Presented by two wheelchairs users with spinal cord injury, this webinar reviews their top tips to choose a first time or replacement manual or powered wheelchair. Also includes a summary of tips from the MASS Equipment Services Clinical Advisors about choosing wheelchairs for people with neurological conditions, amputees and obesity with multiple comorbidities.
Practical tools for checking AT fit for the home
Practical tools for checking AT fit for the home slides (PDF 2356 kB)
Ensuring a good fit to the home is critical to the success of any AT. This presentation will provide practical tools to check that AT is compatible with the home environment.
Checking AT fit for the home strategies for specific areas of the home
Checking AT fit for the home strategies for specific areas of the home slides (PDF 3577 kB)
Delve more deeply into the topic of checking AT Fit for the home, following the 2020 webinar ‘Practical Tools for Checking AT Fit for the Home’. This webinar will further explore use of AT in specific areas of the home, and will include some pitfalls to note, particularly if using strategies other than direct trial in the home.
Introduction to MASS Basic Wheelchair Category and Changes to PRSS Category
Introduction to MASS Basic Wheelchair Category and Changes to PRSS Category slides (PDF 1504 kB)
Covers MASS eligibility criteria, guidelines, subsidy funding and available products.
Caring for your Equipment
Looking after your equipment can prevent breakdowns and help it last as long as possible. Learn about keeping equipment clean, inspecting equipment, simple maintenance, organising repairs and how long equipment is expected to last. This presentation focuses on wheelchairs, walkers and basic daily living aids, including shower chairs.
Maintaining and Adjusting Assistive Technology
Maintaining and Adjusting Assistive Technology slides (PDF 2120 kB)
This short webinar orientates you to a range of resources around equipment maintenance and adjustments.
MASS Equipment - A Case Study
DLA and Mobility Aids – Principles, processes and MASS-eApply
DLA and Mobility Aids – Principles, processes and MASS-eApply slides (PDF 5713 kB)
Appreciate more fully how to apply funding levels to mobility/daily living aids applications and what changes have been made to MASS-eApply. Review the considerations for trialing the most suitable mobility and daily living aids to ensure they will be appropriate for long term use at home, particularly when discharging from hospital.
New Equipment Standing Offer Arrangement: new mobility and daily living aids available through MASS
Adding accessories to your MASS equipment after you receive it
Adding accessories to your MASS equipment after you receive it slides (PDF 3201 kB)
Ramps in the house and slopes in the garden: will the walker/wheelchair make it?
Erratum: 46:50, ignore ratio conversions as these have accidentally been converted from degrees rather than percent
The Ins and Outs of Pressure Redistribution Mattresses
The Ins and Outs of Pressure Redistribution Mattresses slides (PDF 3914 kB)
Emerging research in pressure redistribution support surfaces
Emerging research in pressure redistribution support surfaces slides (PDF 2173 kB)
In this session we hear research updates from; Katherine Rae, PhD candidate, on her research comparing active and reactive pressure redistribution mattresses for pressure injury healing in the community. Gavin Brealey, Masters candidate, on his research comparing the performance of pressure redistribution cushions for older people on typical community armchairs versus hard surfaces on which they are standards tested.
Assessing for and prescribing bathing and toileting aids
Assessing for and prescribing bathing and toileting aids slides (PDF 2885 kB)
The role of static bathing and toileting aids in enhancing safety and independence
A closer look at hoists and patient transfer platforms
A closer look at hoists and patient transfer platforms slides (PDF 4629 kB)
Keep up to date with MASS guidelines and subsidy funding levels for hoists and patient transfer platforms and become acquainted with these new SOA products. Including a focus on patient sling assessments, learn more on considerations and contraindications for prescribing different devices and compatibility with the home environment.
MASS Equipment to Home Program
This program facilitates the prompt discharge of patients from Queensland Health hospitals and associated transition facilities. Find out which hospital and health services have joined the Equipment to Home Program, how to join, the specific equipment provided and processes involved.
Tips for managing continence and pressure care for people who are bedbound
Tips for managing continence and pressure care for people who are bedbound slides (PDF 3918 kB)