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Home access quick check
A home access check looks at whether daily tasks can happen safely: entering, washing, toileting, cooking, sleeping, transferring, storing equipment, and leaving in an emergency.
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A home access check looks at whether daily tasks can happen safely: entering, washing, toileting, cooking, sleeping, transferring, storing equipment, and leaving in an emergency.
- Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Note steps, narrow doors, tight turns, loose rugs, poor lighting, and transfer risks.
- Separate quick fixes from adaptations that need assessment.
- Ask for an occupational therapy assessment where safety is affected.
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- 1Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- 2Note steps, narrow doors, tight turns, loose rugs, poor lighting, and transfer risks.
- 3Separate quick fixes from adaptations that need assessment.
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A home access check looks at whether daily tasks can happen safely: entering, washing, toileting, cooking, sleeping, transferring, storing equipment, and leaving in an emergency.
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Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
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- Prepare: Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Check: Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
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- Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Prepare: Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Check: Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
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- Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Note steps, narrow doors, tight turns, loose rugs, poor lighting, and transfer risks.
- Separate quick fixes from adaptations that need assessment.
- Ask for an occupational therapy assessment where safety is affected.
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- Separate quick fixes from adaptations that need assessment.
- Ask for an occupational therapy assessment where safety is affected.
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Guide summary
- Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Note steps, narrow doors, tight turns, loose rugs, poor lighting, and transfer risks.
- Separate quick fixes from adaptations that need assessment.
- Ask for an occupational therapy assessment where safety is affected.
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- Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Note steps, narrow doors, tight turns, loose rugs, poor lighting, and transfer risks.
- Separate quick fixes from adaptations that need assessment.
- Check entrance, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and main route through the home.
- Note steps, narrow doors, tight turns, loose rugs, poor lighting, and transfer risks.
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