Description
Hillary Price – Empower Clients with Mobility Impairments: Using Technology to Improve Quality of Life
- Faculty:
- Hillary Price, DPT, ATP
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 22 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jul 26, 2019
Description
Individuals with physical limitations want to take ownership of their lives, move forward, and gain independence! To make this happen, they need to know what options exist in the marketplace, how to obtain them, and how to best use them.
Learn about the latest and greatest in assistive technology, especially pertaining to wheelchair functions and accessories. We will focus on the various options available to individualize mobility equipment to maximize the end-user’s experience and independence. Learn how smart phones interface with power wheelchairs, how various controls are operated using Bluetooth devices that interface with power wheelchairs. Options will be presented that range from very simple to complex, affordable and main-stream to specialized and potentially cost-prohibitive. You’ll learn the recommended process for prescribing and obtaining assistive technology devices, as well as take home information and resources that can be shared with your patients immediately!
Handouts
| Manual – Empower Clients with Mobility Impairments (1.3 MB) | 13 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
- Introduction to assistive technology
- Provide definitions and examples of assistive technology pertaining to wheelchair users (both simple add-on devices such as luggage carriers or cup holders, to complex such as a power-assist device or alternative power wheelchair controls)
- Provide guidelines for equipment ordering process, including guidelines for insurance coverage based on the device and the patient’s diagnosis
- Discuss alternative funding sources or community organizations that can help with access to assistive technology options
- Define wheelchair classifications, manual and power
- Discuss modifications necessary within a person’s home and transportation to accommodate manual versus power wheelchairs
- Provide overview of power assist options for manual wheelchair users – a hybrid between power and manual
- Provide outline of new power wheelchair features that utilize Bluetooth technology
- Present and discuss case study for practical application of specific devices for a power wheelchair user
- Questions & answers
Faculty
Hillary Price DPT, ATP Related seminars and products: 2
Hillary Price, DPT, ATP is a Physical Therapist at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, WA. Hillary’s practice focuses on neurological rehabilitation and specializes in wheelchair seating. She earned her Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2010 and became a RESNA Certified Assistive Technologies Professional in 2016. Hillary grew up in Lake Tahoe, CA spending much of her time running, hiking, skiing, and generally just soaking up the splendor of the outdoors. Now living in Seattle, WA she enjoys many of the same things, in addition to traveling, cooking, and spending time with her growing family.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Hillary Price has an employment relationship with the University of Washington Medical Center – Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapies. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Hillary Price is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association – Washington State Chapter.
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