Multi-Professional Support for Independence

Flashcards covering key concepts discussed in the Multi-Professional Support for Independence lecture, including definitions and roles of various Allied Health Professionals, key frameworks, and wellbeing.

Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)

A group of healthcare professionals who contribute to health, wellbeing, and independence.

Occupational Therapists

Consider meaningful occupations to optimize health and wellbeing, helping people adapt how, what, and where they do things. Highly trained in activity analysis.

Physiotherapists

Use physical approaches to promote, maintain, and restore physical, psychological, and social well-being, especially with neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions. Use manual therapy and therapeutic exercise.

Podiatrists

Provide assessment, evaluation, and foot care, specializing in biomechanics, wound-care, foot deformities, and nail-care. Some specialize in surgery.

Orthoptists

Diagnose and treat eye defects, working as part of ophthalmic specialty teams dealing with conditions like glaucoma, cataracts, and macular degeneration.

Paramedics

Senior ambulance service healthcare professionals who assess patients' conditions at accident sites or in medical emergencies and provide essential treatment using high-tech equipment.

Speech & Language Therapists

Help people overcome or adapt to disorders of speech, language, communication, and swallowing, working across the lifespan in various settings.

Radiographers

Use techniques to produce high-quality diagnostic images and play a vital role in therapeutic treatment of cancer by planning and delivering radiotherapy.

Prosthetists

Provide gait analysis and engineering solutions to match missing limbs, skilled in mechanics, bio-mechanics, and material science.

Orthotists

Provide gait analysis and engineering solutions, providing splints, braces, and special footwear (orthotics).

Dieticians

Assess, diagnose, and treat diet and nutrition problems, using scientific research to enable people to make appropriate lifestyle and food choices at individual and public health levels.

Arts Therapists

Work using the psychological and social benefits of art, music, and drama to contribute to overall well-being and reduce social stigma surrounding mental health issues.

World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Wellbeing

General term encompassing all human life domains used to describe the quality of people’s lives, including physical, mental, and social factors.

ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health)

Framework used to understand health and disability, considering body function & structure, activities, participation, environmental factors, and personal factors.

5 Ways to Wellbeing

Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep learning, Give